While the rapper was indicted for “aggravated moral harassment”, the influencer agency boss’s lawyers hope that “justice will be served”. The artist presents himself as “a whistleblower” against “influvoleurs”.
A fight “in the name of all the victims who suffer in silence”. This Monday evening, Magali Berdah’s lawyers welcomed the indictment for “aggravated moral harassment” and the placement under judicial supervision of the rapper Booba.
The artist was the target of numerous complaints from Magali Berdah, a 41-year-old businesswoman and founder of Shauna Events, an agency specializing in relationships between TV personalities and brands. The latter describes an online hell that has had numerous repercussions on her life for more than a year.
“This decision, awaited for months, is a huge victory for Magali Berdah (…) Justice will be done. We will see to it,” assured her lawyers Antonin Gravelin-Rodriguez, Rachel-Flore Pardo and David-Olivier Kaminski in a communicated.
The “lackeys of hatred”
According to the three representatives of Magali Berdah, the indictment “also constitutes a powerful signal addressed to all the servants of hatred who operate under pseudonyms on social networks”. The press release also specifies that 28 people are referred to the criminal court “to answer for their hateful acts”.
This is why the businesswoman’s three lawyers describe her as the symbol of all “victims who suffer in silence, alone behind their screen”.
For his part, Booba has launched, for several months, a crusade against those he calls the “influvoleurs”, denouncing multiple scams against Internet users. In his sights since May 2022, Magali Berdah, target of personal attacks and videos.
He also filed a complaint against In the wake of virulent tweets, Magali Berdah filed a first complaint, followed by dozens of others.
The National Center for the Fight against Online Hate (PNLH) of the Paris public prosecutor’s office then carried out, since June 2022, a preliminary investigation, before entrusting the investigations in the summer of 2023 to an investigating judge.