Eighteen years in prison were requested on Thursday against rapper MHD, on trial before the Paris Assize Court for the murder in Paris in 2018 of a young man, lynched as part of a settling of scores between rival gangs. The Prosecutor also requested sentences ranging from 13 to 20 years of imprisonment for six other co-defendants, one of whom is on the run and therefore being tried in absentia.
The Prosecutor also asked for the acquittal of two other men: one of them, Wissem E., had been cleared by investigators during the trial. For the other, Moussa K., he considered it was “unreasonable” to convict him based on the evidence presented in the investigation to incriminate him.
On the night of July 5 to 6, 2018, Loïc K., aged 23, died after being deliberately run over by a Mercedes in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, then beaten by a dozen men and stabbed. The car was found a day later, burned, in a parking lot.
