Rapper Zola was arrested and taken into custody on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, August 29, after refusing to comply in Essonne, the Evry prosecutor’s office said today, contacted by Agence France Presse. Here’s what we know.
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Zola, his real name Aurelien N’Zuni, 24 years old, was driving on the motorway in a Mini Cooper, at 200 km/h, with the headlights off. Thursday, around 3:00 a.m. in Bondoufle (Essonne), “a gendarmerie crew wanted to check a vehicle” on the A6 motorway, which “fled at very high speed”detailed the prosecution.
According to the Essonne gendarmerie group contacted by AFP, the artist was driving with his lights off at over 200 km/h. Armed with the vehicle’s registration, the police went to the rapper’s home.
Rapper Zola was arrested shortly after his arrival. He surrendered to the police without resistance. The drug test he carried out was positive. The artist was taken into custody for refusal, by the driver of a vehicle, to comply with a summons to stop directly exposing another person to a risk of death or permanent disability, and driving a vehicle while using drugs.
The 24-year-old rapper from Evry-Courcouronnes grew up partly in Lure in Haute-Saône, he became known in particular for the song “Bro Bro” in 2020 and has nearly 2 million subscribers on Instagram. Zola is the author of three albums, the first of which was released in 2020.
His latest opus, Frères ennemis, in collaboration with Koba LaD, another rapper from Essonne, is, according to several specialist media, one of the best debuts of rap albums by a duo.
The young rapper lost his mother in a road accident in Lure, Haute-Saône, in June 2023. He announced his mother’s death on his Instagram account on Tuesday, June 20.
The world has stopped turning for me. Go in peace, my queen.
Aurélien N’Zuni known as Zola in June 2023
“I have a hole in my heart that won’t close, Mom. “, he wrote. The latter had been fatally hit by a car while she was cycling to work on Monday, June 19, in Lure. Despite emergency services, she did not survive her injuries and died on the spot. She was 55 years old. The grieving singer had canceled his participation in the Eurockéennes a few days later.
The rapper attended the 75-year-old driver’s trial. During the hearing, the 75-year-old driver repeatedly stated that he had not seen the cyclist riding on the bike path.
“I’m having a hard time getting over my grief. She wanted me to have grandchildren for her. My mother is no longer here to see what I do. Now nothing is the same. I miss my mother.”
Zola at the trial of the driver who hit his mother with his bike
Zola was outraged by the release of the driver who caused the accident.
