Werenoi: the trial for violence of its producer postponed until January

The Bobigny criminal court postponed until January the trial of the producer of the late rapper Werenoi, who was due to appear on Friday for violence at meetings and cyberbullying against a friend of the artist, in a context of financial disputes.

In the absence of producer Babiry Sacko, known as “Babs”, and the latter’s lawyer, on sick leave, the hearing was adjourned until January 15.

Tensions erupted between “Babs” and the album-selling champion’s entourage shortly after the rapper’s sudden death on May 17.

“I live in hell”

In an interview published on Thursday in Le Parisien, Fátima B., a “close friend” of the rapper, described being attacked on the night of May 21 to 22 “in the back room of a hookah bar” in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) by members of the producer’s professional entourage and by Babs himself. The court noted that he had been given seven days of ITT for multiple blows to the body and face.

“I have been going through hell for five months,” the 35-year-old complainant declared at the hearing, sobbing and saying that she was “criticized at all levels,” “defamed,” “harassed.” “She was literally lynched by several men” and must live semi-clandestinely, insisted her lawyer, Mrs. Clarisse Serre.

The rapper’s mother and a sister were present in the room, in support of the complainant. “She was beaten, and that also concerns us as women,” explained Leytha Bana Owona, 24, Werenoi’s sister, on the sidelines of the hearing. She spoke of Fatima B as “a very close friend” of her brother, who also became “his right-hand woman in Dubai.”

inheritance war

At the end of June, in a press release, producer Babs’ lawyer, Me Mourad Battikh, wrote that Fatima B. “unfairly held in a bank account in Dubai a sum of one million euros that belonged to Werenoi and was now intended for her children.”

“We have the documents, my brother has already invested this million in real estate in Dubai,” said Leytha Bana Owona, slipping: “When my brother was on his deathbed, they talked directly about the money – it gives me chills.”

Werenoi died at the age of 31 in a Paris hospital, after a sudden deterioration in his health. Coming from a modest family, the rapper established himself as the artist who sold the most albums in France in 2023 and 2024.