![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.](https://www.okayafrica.com/media-library/french-rapper-mohamed-sylla-aka-mhd-arrives-for-the-opening-of-his-and-eight-other-men-s-trial-over-a-murder-committed-during.jpg?id=45150132&width=1200&height=800&quality=85&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0)
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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