Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred has been detained in France after prosecutors successfully appealed against his bail terms over a rape charge. The 33-year-old was charged on 28 August with the rape of a woman in Saint-Tropez. He had been allowed to leave custody after posting a bail of $175,450 (£133,500). He is already facing rape allegations dating back to 2016 and was arrested in 2010 on suspicion of another assault. His hit Lmaallem is the most-viewed song by an Arab artist on YouTube. It has been seen more than 650 million times.
Prosecutors in the south-eastern city of Draguignan, near Saint-Tropez, appealed against Mr Lamjarred’s bail terms, which also prohibited him from travelling abroad. They said the latest case was “complex” and involved two “radically opposed versions of events”. Mr Lamjarred was first arrested on suspicion of beating and raping a woman in New York in 2010. He fled the US while on bail and has not returned since. Six years later, he was accused of physically assaulting and raping a young French woman in a hotel in Paris. He was released on bail with an electronic tag in April 2017 awaiting trial. Shortly before his release, French newspaper Le Parisien reported that a French-Moroccan woman claimed to have been physically assaulted by Mr Lamjarred in the Moroccan city of Casablanca two years earlier. She said she reported the incident to the police but later withdrew the complaint under pressure from her family.
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