Rapper Koba LaD and three people are on trial Thursday by the criminal court of Melun (Seine-et-Marne) for having kidnapped and beaten up in 2022 his historic manager, whom the musician accuses of having defrauded him. The 24-year-old artist is being prosecuted for kidnapping and violent theft against his mentor, Marvin I. known as “Deuspi”, to force him to repay money he suspects of having embezzled and break their contractual ties. . Coming free to the October 2023 hearing, during which this case was initially to be judged, the rapper will appear this time inside the detainee box.
The musician with three certified platinum albums was in the meantime indicted and imprisoned in mid-September for manslaughter in Val-de-Marne, accused of having caused the death of his stylist friend in a road accident while he was was driving under the influence of drugs.
In the early morning of April 18, 2022, upon returning from a Koba LaD concert in Lille, a group of masked men presented themselves with Deuspi in blood at the accommodation he occupied with his partner in Vert-Saint-Denis, a commune of the agglomeration of Melun.
Marcel Junior Loutarila, his real name, accuses his manager of having defrauded him of several hundred thousand euros and filed a complaint against him after his arrest by the police in the kidnapping case. The investigation into this financial aspect is still ongoing.
“When I look at the contracts, when I look at the forms, when I look at that, I say to myself that in fact from the start they were screwing me”told Koba LaD last year on Canal+, after leaving a previous stay in prison. After several hours of confinement of Deuspi, with his brother and his partner, the criminals leave, destroying and pillaging the home, taking away every object of value.
“My client was traumatized, he fears for his life and feels in great danger. He hopes that this trial will put an end to the trivialization of all forms of violence in the world of rap.”Deuspi’s lawyer, Me Jonathan Bellaiche, told AFP. “My client was the victim of confinement, theft and damage for seven hours, at her home by seven attackers, including the artist Koba LaD who was her friend”regretted for her part Me Mary Krief, her partner's lawyer. Koba LaD's defense did not wish to comment.
