Three days of police custody for him and his partner, for listening to a Kaaris song. This is the mishap that happened to Younès and Nadia (the first names have been changed) in Paris two weeks ago.
As reported The Parisianthe forty-year-old was arrested after witnesses interpreted the lyrics of a song by the rapper entitled Burst like threats towards an Israeli cuisine restaurant.
His partner also in police custody
The 49-year-old man had stopped his car for a few seconds to let pedestrians pass in front of the restaurant in the 17th arrondissement, while he was listening to the song whose chorus repeats “Be careful, it's going to burst, burst, burst.” “I saw some guys looking at me weird. I didn’t calculate too much, I mapped out my route,” reports Younès.
The next day, he was arrested on a roundabout by the police, before being taken into custody. It is then Thursday, it will not be released until Saturday evening. Nadia, a clerk in a courthouse in the Paris region, was also arrested at her home and placed in police custody a few cells from her companion.
Permanent psychological pressure
According to the testimony of the people who denounced him, Younès would have been accompanied by two other people in the car and would have uttered the threats out loud, wearing a gray djellaba. “I was in a black hoodie with a khaki green parka! “, he assures, transmitting videos to the police who then ask him “lots of questions about the Muslim religion”. “It shows that I was alone in the car and how I was dressed. »
“It’s a permanent psychological pressure. But we were innocent. I was afraid that Younès would collapse, the more the hours passed, the more I saw him decomposing,” says Nadia. The couple will ultimately be exonerated and released thanks to the geolocation of their phones and video surveillance. They claim to have lost 4 kg each during police custody. Claustrophobic, Younès will also be hospitalized several hours after feeling unwell.
“No element of offense is characterized”
“It ends well but I won't let it go. We were victims. November 13, the famous match, the conflict in the Middle East, I can understand the concern. But we have nothing anti-Semitic,” says Nadia, who denounces the “lies” and the thoughtlessness of the “witnesses”. The prosecution also confirms Parisian that “no element of any offense has been identified” at this stage and that “custody has been lifted because it is not even certain that the suspect made the comments that witnesses reported, or s “They were song lyrics.”
“Indeed, they had nothing to reproach themselves for. It took us a little while to establish it. The report seemed credible,” explains a police source. The couple's lawyer says they will file a complaint for “slanderous denunciation”.
