Karim Ballo, 39, was presented to an investigating judge on Friday, November 29, after a complaint from a man who said he had been accosted in a street in the Marais, in Paris, in March, then forced into sexual intercourse. .
Jr O Crom, one of the rappers from the group Sexion d’Assaut, is suspected in a rape case in Paris. The 39-year-old Franco-Malian artist, whose real name is Karim Ballo, was presented Friday, November 29 to an investigating judge, “as part of an opening of information for rape,” we learned. Liberation with the Paris public prosecutor’s office, confirming information from Parisian.
The facts allegedly took place on March 25, 2024. A receptionist at a hotel in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) had informed the police when a customer arrived at his establishment. “in tears who confided to him that he had been raped earlier in the evening in the Marais district”relates the prosecution. According to his version, the complainant had several sexual relations during two evenings in a row in a bar in the Marais, in the center of Paris. When leaving, “he would have been accosted in the street and forced to have further sexual relations”, always according to the same source.
According to a police source cited by the Parisianthe victim said he was forced to perform oral sex on a man under a porte cochère. The investigation by the judicial police led “to identify this person who accosted him as being Karim [Ballo]», according to the prosecution.
Alongside Black M and Maître Gims in particular, Jr O Crom rose to fame in the early 2010s with the group Sexion d’Assaut. Several titles had made the group successful, such as Sorry or You tire me. After two albums, the group’s members embarked on solo careers. A decision that did not particularly please Jr O Crom.
The group reformed to release a new album in 2020, which ultimately never saw the light of day, due to lack of agreement between its various members.
