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French rapper Mohamed Sylla, aka MHD, arrives for the opening of his and eight other men's trial over a murder committed during a brawl between two rival gangs in Paris in 2018, at the Palais de Justice courthouse in Paris, on September 4, 2023. The artist and four co-defendants will appear free, three others are still in pre-trial detention and the last, still at large, will be tried in absentia. They face thirty years' imprisonment.

French rapper Mohamed Sylla, aka MHD, arrives for the opening of his and eight other men's trial over a murder committed during a brawl between two rival gangs in Paris in 2018, at the Palais de Justice courthouse in Paris, on September 4, 2023.

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Parisian Rapper MHD Receives 12-Year Prison Sentence for 2018 Murder

MHD has been sentenced to 12 years. The Perisian rapper maintains his innocence amid co-defendant verdicts surrounding his involvement in a 2018 killing.