Five people will soon be tried in Paris for cyberbullying targeting the high priestess of influencers Magali Berdah, we learned Thursday from a source familiar with the matter. Requested by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed that eight people (six men and two women aged 26 to 34) were taken into custody on November 29 as part of the ongoing investigation at the Pôle national campaign against online hate”. “Five have been summoned to a subsequent hearing for trial, including aggravated cyberstalking counts,” the source confirmed.
The rapper Booba, whose summons on this date had been announced by the newspaper The Parisian and whom Magali Berdah holds responsible for her cyberbullying, “was not one of the eight”, said the prosecution. Masters David-Olivier Kaminski, Anouck Aragones and Antonin Gravelin-Rodriguez, lawyers for Magali Berdah, accused “the convict” Booba, sentenced to eighteen months in prison suspended for a famous brawl with his rival Kaaris in 2018 in Orly airport, to “escape at the first summons”. The rapper’s attorney could not immediately be reached.
“I am experiencing mass online harassment”
The public prosecutor also clarified that “two police custody have been lifted for further investigation. A person benefited from a classification without follow-up for lack of a sufficiently serious offense”. The Paris prosecutor’s office had already announced on October 20 upcoming appearances for eleven men and a woman also suspected of cyberharassment targeting Magali Berdah.
In a press release published in mid-July, Magali Berdah accused Booba of targeting her on social networks for several months “by false and humiliating publications”. “Since then, I have suffered mass online harassment”, with thousands of daily messages, she confided.
During a press conference in mid-September, she had qualified Booba, Elie Yaffa of his real name, of “harasser who calls himself whistleblower” and listed the fifteen complaints or supplements filed after the harassment that she l ‘accused of having initiated. The rapper, for his part, filed a complaint against X to denounce deceptive commercial practices attributed to Shauna Events, Magali Berdah’s influencer agency, and an organized gang scam. The Grasse prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on September 6 into the first offense, entrusted to the Antibes police station.