The rapper Mister You was arrested last week at Orly airport and imprisoned as part of the execution of the 24-month flexible prison sentence to which he had been sentenced in 2021, AFP learned from his lawyer, confirming information from the newspaper. the parisian.
In March 2021, the 38-year-old rapper was sentenced on appeal in Paris to 24 months in prison for the 2019 promotion on social media of a major deal point in the Parisian suburbs, the Caliweed network.
However, according to the rapper’s defense, the latter did not receive a letter about the adjustment of his sentence, for which he was executed. “The 24-month sentence handed down by the Paris Court of Appeal on March 9, 2021 was carried out on Thursday, July 21 (2022),” the Créteil prosecutor’s office confirmed to AFP.
“Procedural Madness”
Mister You, Younes Latifi by his real name, was therefore arrested when he was taking the plane to go to Morocco.
“The execution of this sentence without prior citation is procedural madness, and a shame on a human level in a context where my director saw his twins born three weeks ago,” his lawyer, Me Robin Binsard, reacted to AFP.
A sentence adjustment hearing will be held on September 21 in Paris, it added.
The rapper whose clips now rack up tens of millions of views on YouTube, Mister You, originally from the Belleville district of Paris, notably made himself known to the general public in the late 2000s by posting music while on a drug fugue. . trafficking case.
Source: BFM TV
