The Public Prosecution is prosecuting him for indecency.. Moroccan rapper "Toto": "I am not a bad person"
The Moroccan Public Prosecution Office began investigating rapper "Toto" on charges of "insulting, slandering and threatening" after he was placed in custody, according to a judicial source.
This decision came after the complainants gave up the complaints they had filed against him and offered him an apology, according to what the source explained, preferring not to be named.
He also indicated that he had paid a guarantee of 20,000 dirhams (about 1,800 dollars).
On the other hand, a source close to Taha Al-Fahsi, known by his nickname "Al-Karandi Toto", explained that four artists who had filed complaints against him decided to withdraw them, while a journalist and a security man did not withdraw two other complaints.
"Toto" had placed the two in custody in Casablanca after complaints submitted by artists, a security man and a journalist, accusing him of insulting, slandering and threatening.
According to local media, the Public Prosecution relied on the prosecution of "Al-Karandi Toto" on press statements and his publications on social media, the contents of which were considered "punishable by law."
Among the complainants, a Moroccan journalist residing in Belgium accused the artist of "promoting drug consumption", as well as "slander", "threatening" and "breach of modesty" against the background of social media posts, according to what his lawyer Mohamed Karout previously told AFP.
This came after he criticized statements made by "Al-Karandi Toto", on the sidelines of a party in Rabat on September 23, in which he said in particular, "Yes, I smoke marijuana, and what next?", stressing in answer to a journalist's question that this "does not necessarily mean that I am setting a bad example." for young people.
On the eve of his appearance in front of the police on Monday, the latter apologized for these statements at a press conference in the presence of his lawyer, Abdel-Fattah Zahrach, who also announced that his client was banned from traveling outside Morocco on Thursday.
"I apologize to everyone who was disturbed by my words, starting with the authorities and the public, they may not understand what I wanted to say," Toto said at the conference, which aroused the interest of the local media.
He regretted the uproar caused by this, adding, "I am not a bad person, rap is not a bad thing, it has a special language that I may not have used at the right time and place."
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