The rapper Moha La Squale, arrested on Friday in the 18th arrondissement of Paris and placed in police custody for refusing to comply with aggravated, contempt of anyone holding public authority and rebellion, will be presented this Saturday to a judge, said the Paris prosecutor's office.
The 25-year-old Parisian rapper was arrested following a routine traffic stop after the police discovered that he was on a search warrant for aggravated refusal to comply, according to a police source. Moha La Squale first managed to escape on foot before being caught and "hardly handcuffed" by three police, according to the same source. An arrest that is visible on several videos that have circulated on social networks.
Police custody lifted
His police custody was lifted this Saturday at the end of the morning. "I noticed that he had numerous wounds and injuries which made him unfit to appear in court," his lawyer, Elise Arfi, told AFP. “We await a human decision and common sense from the magistrate before whom he will be presented. "
The search warrant follows a "motorcycle rodeo on May 21 in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris", "during which he refused to comply with requests to stop, and failed to strike a young girl in her flight" , according to a source familiar with the matter.
The custody of a friend who accompanied Moha La Squale was also "lifted on Saturday, and she will be re-convened, the investigation continuing as far as she is concerned," according to the Paris prosecutor's office. On the videos, we see her briefly trying to prevent the arrest.
Revelation of 2018
The rapper was one of the big revelations of the year 2018, author of a first album Bendero , acclaimed by the public (gold record, more than 50,000 copies sold) and by critics.
Named to the Victoires de la musique 2019, the artist was noticed with “freestyles” posted on Facebook and Youtube, where we see him rapping in his kitchen or in his neighborhood of “La Banane” in Ménilmontant, in the 20th century district of Paris. He already told the street, his own daily life, his life before when he was a dealer and then in prison.
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