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For facts dating back to March 2024, the rapper Jr O Crom will be presented before an investigating judge as part of the opening of a judicial investigation. The rapper from the famous group Sexion d'Assaut is reportedly suspected of rape.
According to The Parisiana member of the Sexion d'Assaut group, Jr O Crom, is suspected of rape. The rapper must be presented, this Friday, November 29, to an investigating judge, “as part of an opening of information for rape”, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed to our colleagues.
Opening of information for rape
The facts date back to March 25, 2024. That day, a receptionist at a hotel located in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) found one of his customers in tears. The latter confides that he was the victim of rape a few hours earlier in the Marais district of Paris. Law enforcement and investigators from the first judicial police district are responsible for the investigation.
They summoned the rapper – real name Karim Ballo – on Wednesday November 27 to their premises to question him in the context of “gang rape”. “The complainant indicated that he had been accosted in the street and had been forced to have sexual intercourse,” specifies the Paris prosecutor’s office in Parisian.
According to initial investigations, the 39-year-old singer was identified as the man who had accosted the alleged victim.