The Paris criminal court delivered its verdict against Yassine Belattar on Monday. Prosecuted for death threats and crimes targeting several personalities from the entertainment world in 2018 and 2019, the comedian and polemicist was sentenced to four months’ suspended imprisonment.
Justice considered that the facts of death threats and crimes against the screenwriter and director Kader Aoun were “established and objectified” by the recordings of several telephone calls.
A sentence accompanied by an obligation of care
The 41-year-old comedian was also found guilty of malicious conversations towards another comedian, Kevin Razy. He was ordered to pay 500 euros in damages to the latter, and a symbolic euro to Kader Aoun.
The defendant was, however, acquitted of the death threats against David Weisbrod, production director of Kader Aoun. Yassine Belattar had said he wanted to “set fire” to his offices. His four-month suspended prison sentence – the public prosecutor had requested six months suspended – is also accompanied by an obligation of care and a ban on meeting the victims.
Positions noticed by Emmanuel Macron
The radio host, who became a polemicist and voice of the suburbs at the Elysée, was indicted in March 2019, in particular for death threats and threats of repeated crimes, in a commercial dispute linked to the purchase of a Parisian theater. These prosecutions cost him his place on Radio Nova, where he had hosted the daily show “Les 30 glorieuses” since 2016.
Franco-Moroccan, Yassine Belattar was the first comedian to return to the stage at the Bataclan after the attacks of November 13, 2015. His speeches on the suburbs earned him the attention of Emmanuel Macron, who appointed him in 2018 to the Presidential Council of Cities, intended to fuel the executive’s reflection on priority neighborhoods.