Overview
- Investigating judges have referred rapper Booba to the Paris criminal court on charges of cyberharassment for posts that prosecutors say targeted agent Magali Berdah.
- Two people have also been sent for trial for complicity, including Grégory Zaoui and a former employee of Berdah, while some charges were dropped or narrowed by magistrates.
- Judges found parts of the online campaign attacked Berdah’s appearance, religion and private life and noted Booba’s ability to mobilise his roughly 5 million followers and a community known as la piraterie.
- Booba denies he harassed Berdah and frames his posts as whistleblowing; he lives in Miami and his lawyers have not issued a public comment on the referral.
- The case follows earlier convictions of participants and is set for a hearing on March 25, 2027, with lawyers for Berdah calling it a major test of how courts hold instigators of mass online abuse to account.