![]() My first kick was a warning to keep him from attacking me.”Ī video shot by a fan was used as evidence against Booba. “I was surrounded and that’s why I put my bag down. “I tried to avoid the group,” Booba said. The rapper Stomy Bugsy subsequently recorded his own video there, walking between aisles of perfume bottles and taunting sales women.Īt their trial, both rappers pleaded self-defence. The duty-free shop became an attraction where tourists take selfies of themselves to post on social media. In the queue, travellers showed each other videos of the fray on their smartphones. All 400 passengers in hall four were transferred to hall one, leading to a huge back-up at security. Seven flights were postponed for up to 90 minutes. The boutique claimed €54,123 in damages, including €18,000 in lost revenue for being forced to close for four hours. Air France, Aéroports de Paris and the shop owner were all civil plaintiffs. The warring gangs turned the duty-free shop into their battleground, hurling perfume bottles and face cremes at each other. Kaaris said he “would have changed planes” if he’d known. Both sides were spoiling for a fight.īy coincidence, the rappers were booked on the same flight to Barcelona, where they were to have performed in night clubs a few hundred metres from each other. "He has talent and potential, but he's raw and he was wrong to think he could overthrow me." A few days before the fight at Orly, Booba posted a picture of Kaaris's face on a monkey's body. "I can't forget the insults and treachery," Booba told Inrockuptibles magazine last February. Tension had grown between the two rap stars in recent months. I'm gonna wait for you when the sun is high enough in the sky for everyone to see me kill the king," Kaaris chanted. It was Kaaris who declared war on Booba, with his High Noon-style ultimatum back in March 2014, in an improvised rap on Skyrock. But Kaaris refused to side with Booba in his wars with the rapsters Rohff (Housni Mkouboi) and Fouine (Laouni Mouhid). They recorded two hit songs together in 2011, Criminal League and Kalash. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Booba steps to one side, kicks Kaaris and the fight begins. Kaaris stands up too, flanked by two friends and a cousin. One video showed Booba setting down his bag and walking towards Kaaris. Video-surveillance footage and videos posted by onlookers during the free-for-all in the departure lounge were the main sources of evidence. All were charged with gang violence and theft. The prosecutor asked for one-year suspended prison sentences for both of the rap musicians, suspended sentences of six to 12 months for seven hangers-on, and six to eight months in jail for two repeat-offenders. He has been strongly influenced by US rappers, whose feuds have sometimes been lethal.īy the time a French prosecutor completed his summing up in a courtroom in Créteil, outside Paris, around midnight on Thursday night, there was scarcely a French person who had not heard of the battle of Orly airport, between Booba and Kaaris and nine of their followers, in a departure lounge last August 1st. It’s the style pioneered by Booba since the late 1990s, all about violence, prison, drug dealers, prostitution and money.īooba spent a year in Detroit as a teenager and has lived in downtown Miami for the past decade. Until August 2018, Booba and Kaaris were celebrities to youths in France’s immigrant banlieues and aficionados of Skyrock FM, the radio station favoured by fans of hardcore rap. ![]()
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