Morocco’s King Mohammed VI will cover the legal fees of pop singer Saad Lamjarred, imprisoned in France charged with “aggravated rape”, the official MAP news agency reported on Tuesday.
MAP said the king had told Lamjarred’s family that French lawyer Eric Dupond Moretti, known for securing his clients’ acquittals, “can defend the singer”. The king “decided to cover the corresponding costs”, MAP said, sourcing its information to Rabat’s embassy in Paris.
The embassy told AFP: “This is a favourable response to a request from the family of the singer who sought his majesty’s intervention, and with respect for the presumption of innocence”. Lamjarred, 31, was on Friday charged in France with “aggravated rape” and “aggravated voluntary violence” after a 20-year-old woman on Wednesday filed a complaint against him.
