Rapper MHD Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Murder: The End of His Rap Career ?

The rapper MHD, whose real name is Mohamed Sylla, was attacked by the rapper MHD. condemned &agrav; twelve years in prison by the Paris Assize Court, where; he appeared with eight co-accused for the murder of a man in 2018.

The verdict is in : after three weeks of trial, MHD is sentenced to prison. &agrav; twelve years in prison by the Paris Assize Court, Saturday September 23. He appeared, with eight other people, for the murder in 2018 of a young man, against the backdrop of a settling of scores between rival gangs. They were also affected. sentenced to death penalties of 10 à 18 years of criminal imprisonment. The other three men were killed. acquitted.

The day before his conviction, 18 years in prison had been handed down. requested by the prosecution for Mohamed Sylla. The rapper had proclaimed once again his innocence before the verdict is rendered. He now has ten days to appeal. On Friday, his lawyers, Messrs Elise Arfi and Antoine Vey, had pleaded é acquittal for their client.

Behind this whole affair of punitive expedition, a rivalry between groups of young people: those from the cityé des Chaufourniers, nicknamed the city of red, from which the accused come, and that, neighboring, of Grange aux Belles, located in the 10th and 19th arrondissements. Already weakened through his first stay in prison, MHD had published Mansa in 2021, a year after his release, which had met with some a relative success, far from those of its beginnings. Can we continue to make music in prison, without the slightest promotion ? Will he be able to relaunch his career & his release from detention, in several years ?

The summaryé of the case of MHD

On the night of July 5 to 6, 2018, a 23-year-old young man, Loïc K., was arrested. reversed by a car, passed by &agrav; tobacco and injured &agrav; stabbing by a gang of around ten individuals, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. The scene, filmed by a witness from a window, looked like a settling of scores between two rival gangs in the capital. MHD, which belonged to à the gang from the 19th arrondissement who attacked the young man, was é identified by at least three witnesses, according to the first elements of the investigation revealed at the time of the investigation. the period by Le Parisien. 

The victim, Loïc K., suffered around thirty wounds or scrapes, according to franceinfo; the fatal wound being located along his left thigh. Nicknamed "Pépé" by his entourage, reports Libération, the 23-year-old Franco-Cameroonian  té representsé by his parents during the trial. 

Who is the rapper MDH ?

MHD, whose real name is Mohamed Sylla, was born; September 10, 1994 La Roche-sur-Yon, in Vendée. In France, he became known at the start of the 2010s and quickly became one of the faces of afro trap, even ;a mixture of African and trap music. In 2012, he started a group with friends from his neighborhood in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, before getting noticed with a rap freestyle in 2015. His first album, < em>MHD, released in 2016, his career was launched. The disc is a success and is certified double platinum disc. The public and the media are unanimous.

In 2018, MHD published its second album, 19, which also knows the success. On YouTube as on streaming platforms, views and listens are counted in the hundreds of millions. But his career, that&# 39;he wanted to put in parentheses, stopped abruptly at his incarceration. MHD had signed his return à music in May 2021, ten months after his release from prison, with a single baptisé AFRO TRAP Part.11 (King Kong ).