Koffi Olomide guilty of rape

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Congolese lingala musician Koffi Olomidé, has been found guilty of raping one of his former dancers while at the of 15 years.

The Musician was handed two-year suspended jail sentence by a court in France as he was absent during the ruling.

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According to international media, he is however at risk of arrest if he commits another offence.

He was further ordered to pay 5,000 euros in damages to the former dancerand a further fine of the same amount for helping three women enter France illegally.

The global musician was first charged in 2012 with aggravated rape but the charges were reduced.

Four dancers who used to work for the musician told the court that he sexually assaulted them multiple times between 2002 and 2006.

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The women further alleged they were held captive in a villa outside Paris and escaped one night in June 2006, but did not return home to DR Congo for fear of reprisal.

Prosecutors had been pushing for a seven-year sentence but the court dismissed the assault and kidnapping charges.

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Olomidé fled to DR Congo in 2009 promising to defend himself but failed to appear for the trial in France which, at the women’s request, was held behind closed doors in a Paris court.

The singer, whose real name is, Antoine Agbepa Mumba, has been in trouble with the law several times before.

In 2018 Zambia ordered his arrest after he allegedly assaulted a photographerIn 2016 he was arrested and deported after he assaulted one of his dancers in KenyaIn 2012 he was convicted in DR Congo of assaulting his producer and received a three-month suspended prison sentence.

In 2008 he was accused of kicking a cameraman from DR Congo’s private RTGA television station and breaking his camera at a concert, but the two later were later reconciled.

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