The singer has been relaxed with sexual assaults “for the benefit of doubt,” said Monday, the President of the 7th Correctional Chamber of the Versailles Court of Appeal.
Le Monde with AFP
Reversal in appeal: Koffi Olomid, Star of the Congolese Rumba, has been relaxed, Monday, December 13, leaders of sexual assault on four of his ex-dancers, but sentenced to eighteen months of Imprisonment with three-year probationary stay for sequestering them during his tours in France. At the hearing on October 25, eight years in prison had been required against the Franco-Congolese singer.
In the first instance, the Nanterre court sentenced him in March 2019 to two years of suspended prison for “sexual attack” on one of these young women, declared minor at the time of the facts, and relaxed to prosecute concerning three of the dancers. The public prosecutor had appealed.
“Scalable declarations”
The relaxation on sexual assault is “pronounced for the benefit of the doubt,” said the President of the Court of Appeal of Versailles, evolving “evolutionary declarations , sometimes contradictory “complainants. On the other hand, the sequestration “is no doubt”, with complainants “deprived of freedom and monitored constantly” between 2002 and 2006 in a Parisian suburban pavilion.