Rabat- One of Saad Lamjarred’s lawyers has announced his withdrawal from the rape case, after the Moroccan singer was accused of a second rape in France.
Rabat- One of Saad Lamjarred’s lawyers has announced his withdrawal from the rape case, after the Moroccan singer was accused of a second rape in France.
Eric Dupond-Moretti told Moroccan news outlet Le 360 that he is no longer a member of the Moroccan singer’s defense team.
King Mohammed VI had appointed the lawyer to defend Lamjarred when he was first arrested in France for violence and rape in October 2016.
Dupond-Moretti, however, refused to explain why he dropped the case.
French authorities arrested the 33-year-old singer on Sunday morning in Saint-Tropez in southeastern France on Sunday, August 26, after police received a new rape complaint from another woman.
Jean-Marc Fedida, another member of Lamjarred’s defense team, denied the charges against his client after his release. He told France Info that Lamjarred had “a consensual sexual relationship” with the woman who accuses him of rape.
“He denies any violence against this person, of any nature whatsoever.”
Fedida also asserted that “no material findings can confirm the existence of such violence.”
The news of Lamjarred’s new alleged crime has his fans and followers questioning his involvement.
Lamjarred was released under surveillance Tuesday night, after spending two days in custody. An investigating judge of the Draguignan Tribunal charged him with rape.
Several Moroccan celebrities, including singer Douzi, congratulated Lamjarred after his release.
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The judge’s decision to allow Lamjarred to be released, however, angered his first French victim, Laura Prioul, who is awaiting trial in her case and heavily criticized her country’s justice system.
“This is something I can not conceive, it’s something I can not understand, that he can go on vacation like that since there have already been complaints against him and I’m not the first,” Prioul told France radio RTL.
In another statement to Le Parisian, Prioul said that she was “extremely shocked” that Lamjarred has the right to roam freely in France’s Saint-Tropez, “not far from the place” where she works.
