Between 2020 and 2024, three women had filed a rape complaint against the French artist, now 33 years old.
Published the 24/01/2025 21:05
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The rape investigation targeting rapper Lomepal was classified on Friday, January 24, told AFP the lawyer for one of the complainants. “The prosecution [de Paris] Do not say that the offense did not take place, but that the facts are old and that there are not enough elements to refer before a judgment jurisdiction “said Sacha Ghozlan. Between 2020 and 2024, three women had filed a rape complaint against the French artist, now 33 years old.
-“I am innocent”proclaimed on its Lomepal networks, announcing the classification of the investigation. “There were months and months of police investigation. I gave all the elements that I could find from the time. Messages, photos, call statements, screenshots on networks … all my life has been searched “insisted the rapper. “I resume my life, see you soon.”
The investigations were launched after the complaint of the rapper’s knowledge in 2020, who accused her of raped her in New York. A second woman had filed a complaint at the end of 2023, denouncing rape facts in 2018 in France. According to her lawyer, Sacha Ghozlan, she plans to file a new complaint, this time with the constitution of a civil party, in order to obtain the referral of an investigating judge to investigate again.
Lomepal, his real name Antoine Valentinelli, had been confronted with the two complainants at the end of February 2024, in police custody. A third woman then filed a complaint in May, her accusations then being attached to the preliminary investigation.
