Moroccan pop star and convicted rapist Saad Lamjarred will appear again before a French court on Monday, facing a new rape charge related to an incident from 2018.
The singer has been accused of raping a waitress at a bar near Saint-Tropez. Lamjarred denies the accusation.
According to her testimony, the woman was working as a waitress in Saint-Tropez in August 2018 when she met Lamjarred at a nightclub. She said she did not know he was a famous singer, although she later learned he had millions of followers online. She agreed to join him for a drink at his hotel.
She told investigators that Lamjarred took her straight to his room, forcibly stripped her and sexually assaulted her. Lamjarred denies the assault and insists the encounter was consensual.
“A night of horror, seven years of waiting, suffering, and patience. She awaits recognition that she is a victim,” said the lawyer of the woman, Dominique Lardans.
Lamjarred has been linked to several other sexual assault cases over the years. He was accused of rape in 2010 in the United States, but the charges were dropped after a settlement with the alleged victim. Later in 2017, he was charged again after a French-Moroccan woman said he had assaulted and beaten her in Casablanca in 2015.
He was sentenced in 2023 to six years in prison in France for raping and beating a young woman in a Paris hotel in 2016. He has appealed that ruling and continues to maintain his innocence, though he admitted during that trial that he hit the woman forcefully.
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