Speak Up, an Egyptian feminist initiative that had supported calls for Lamjarred’s concerts in the country to be cancelled, described the verdict as “happy news”. His victim, meanwhile, said she had received death threats and insults following the attack after her name was leaked by a blogger.

“It has now been a year since I was physically attacked, hit, raped. For a year, I have been hiding from the media, hiding from everyone, but everyone is talking about me,” she said in a video in 2017, where she spoke publicly about the case for the first time.

“So many people were talking about me, insulting me, but nobody supported me apart from my family and friends,” she said at the time. At the trial, the court found she showed signs of post-traumatic stress, according to French news reports. Lamjarred has also been charged with the rape of a woman in 2018 in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, although a trial date has not been set yet, according to the Associated Press.

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