Rapper Koba LaD, involved in a fatal accident in Créteil on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday and who was under the influence of “narcotics” during the events, was indicted on Saturday September 14 and imprisoned, the Créteil prosecutor’s office announced to Agence France-Presse. Koba LaD was “charged with aggravated involuntary manslaughter and aggravated involuntary injury and placed in pre-trial detention”.
The 24-year-old artist, who lives in Essonne, was driving on Tuesday evening, a source close to the case explained, when his vehicle, a luxury sports sedan, arrived “at full speed” on an exit ramp from a petrol station on the A86 motorway and hit a parked heavy goods vehicle.
The front passenger, born in 1994, died. The vehicle driven by Koba LaD was also carrying a rear passenger, born in 1999, who was slightly injured in the accident. The driver of the heavy goods vehicle that was hit was also “slightly injured”the prosecution added.
Sentenced in 2020
Koba LaD was sentenced in 2020 to a three-month suspended prison sentence and one hundred and forty hours of community service for a car accident in Marseille. He fled after the incident, before reporting to the police three days later. He was also given a four-month license suspension during an appearance on prior admission of guilt (a “guilty plea” procedure).
The artist with more than three million followers on Instagram made his mark on the rap planet in 2018 with his first album, VII. He released the song at the end of last week 911 alongside rappers Ninho and Niska.
His latest album, Enemy brothers, in collaboration with Zola, another rapper from Essonne, was, according to several specialist media, one of the best starts to duo rap albums.
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