Overview
- Saad Lamjarred was sentenced Friday to five years in prison by the cour d’assises in Draguignan for raping a woman he met in Saint-Tropez in 2018.
- The weeklong trial was held behind closed doors at the accuser’s request, and jurors deliberated for more than four hours before returning the verdict.
- Prosecutors had asked for a 10-year term, and the court ordered €30,000 in damages and €5,000 in legal fees to the victim.
- The singer has always denied rape and was not taken into custody after the verdict because judges noted he complied with judicial controls following three months in jail in 2018.
- This case follows his 2023 Paris conviction for a separate 2016 rape, which he appealed, and earlier allegations in Morocco in 2015 and in the United States in 2010 that ended in a settlement.