Overview
- On Tuesday, the rapper offered a short account to judges, saying "all the signals told me it was cool," with a fuller interrogation scheduled for Wednesday.
- The complainant, identified as Emma, and witnesses Alexandra F. and Chloé S. are due to testify later Tuesday about what happened in the hotel room.
- The case centers on an October 2021 night that moved from The Key nightclub to a hotel, where alcohol, cannabis and nitrous oxide were used and phones were left outside.
- The complainant says she woke to the pain of vaginal penetration and tried to push him away; investigators reported Naps' DNA on her clothing and a hymenal lesion.
- Naps contests the allegations and describes consensual activity; the Paris trial runs February 16–19 with a verdict expected Thursday, and he also faces a separate investigation opened in 2024 in the Var.