Overview
- Judges ordered Naps’s release on March 6 under contrôle judiciaire with no financial bond, according to his lawyers.
- He was convicted on February 19 by the Paris criminal court and sentenced to seven years for the 2021 hotel-room rape of a woman who said she was asleep.
- Naps, who denies the charges and says any sexual encounter was consensual, filed an appeal immediately after the verdict.
- Following the mandat de dépôt, he had been held in isolation at Fresnes prison, where only his attorneys had visited him.
- His counsel cited years of compliance with prior judicial checks and no dual nationality to argue low flight risk, and he also remains under formal investigation in the Var over separate allegations he contests.