JoeyStarr

In July 2024, the child protection police unit opened an investigation following a complaint by JoeyStarr's former partner accusing him of violence against their nine-year-old son. The case was made public by several media outlets.

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In April 2016, during a live segment of « Touche pas à mon poste ! », JoeyStarr slapped commentator Gilles Verdez, who appeared with a facial injury. The incident prompted several hundred reports to the CSA and considerable controversy.

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Following an altercation with police officers in Liège in 2013, JoeyStarr was tried in Belgium. In June 2015, he was convicted of resisting and insulting officers and received a fifteen-day suspended prison sentence and a fine.

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In February 2014, JoeyStarr was removed from a Nice–Paris flight following an incident linked to his intoxication. He was held in a sobering-up cell, and Air France announced that it would file a complaint for insult and manifest public drunkenness.

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Following violence against his partner in 2008, JoeyStarr appeared before the Paris Criminal Court and was sentenced in February 2009 to three months' immediate imprisonment and €2 000 in damages.

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In June 2009, JoeyStarr was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, including six months to be served, after damaging a car with a meat cleaver during a neighbourhood dispute. He was incarcerated.

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An altercation with mobile gendarmes in 2003 resulted in another conviction of JoeyStarr. Retrospective press accounts report a four-month prison sentence, including one month to be served.

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JoeyStarr was convicted in the early 2000s of mistreating a monkey he kept, following the release of footage showing the animal being struck.

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During a drug-related investigation, police discovered a handgun at JoeyStarr's home. Judicial retrospectives report a one-month immediate prison sentence for possession or carrying of a prohibited weapon.

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Judicial retrospectives concerning JoeyStarr mention several convictions in 2000, notably for offences involving his pit bull and violence against a passer-by.

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Following an incident aboard a flight in 1998, JoeyStarr was prosecuted for assaulting a flight attendant and insulting police officers. In February 1999, the Bobigny Criminal Court sentenced him to two months' immediate imprisonment and a fine.

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In June 1999, JoeyStarr was sentenced to six months' immediate imprisonment and ordered to pay damages for violence against his former partner Jennifer Galin.

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Following an NTM concert in La Seyne-sur-Mer in 1995, during which JoeyStarr and Kool Shen made particularly vehement remarks against police, the Toulon Criminal Court sentenced them in 1996 to six months' imprisonment, including three months to be served, together with a professional ban. On appeal in 1997, the sentence was substantially reduced to a suspended sentence and a fine.

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