Overview
- The Paris court found the rapper, whose real name is Nabil Boukhobza, guilty of raping a woman in 2021 and ordered seven years in prison with immediate remand.
- Judges cited an absence of consent, emphasizing the woman’s consistent testimony that she was asleep and awakened by painful penetration.
- The sentence matched the prosecutor’s request, which characterized the acts as a “rape by surprise.”
- Naps denies wrongdoing and maintains the encounter was consensual; a friend recanted an earlier claim, while witnesses agreed the woman had been asleep.
- Toxicology referenced alcohol, cannabis and nitrous oxide that can impair vigilance and memory, and the artist remains under formal investigation in the Var over similar allegations.