Simba La Rue and Baby Gang have been indicted

Simba La Rue, press office photo

The first preliminary hearing of the trial of Simba La Rue and Baby Gang took place yesterday. The two, as reported by Corriere della Sera, are accused of brawl, robbery, injury and illegal carrying of a firearm for the events that took place on the night between 2 and 3 July in Corso Como in Milan. The investigating judge of Milan Giulio Fanales accepted the request of the prosecutor Francesca Crupi and the trial will begin on June 14th.

Simba La Rue is accused together with six other young people also for the “feud between trappers” which saw him involved together with Touché, who has neither filed a complaint nor filed a civil action. All the defendants have chosen the abbreviated procedure, the next hearing is set for April 19th.

Again as reported by the Corriere della Sera, among the defendants sent to trial there are also Mounir Chakib, manager of both Simba La Rue and Baby Gang.

Instead, another manager of the Lecco trapper, Paulo Marilson Da Silva, was acquitted of the robbery charge. Niccolo Vecchioni and Jacopo Cappettathe lawyers of Baby Gang and Simba La Rue, they tried to drop the robbery charge for the events in Milan. They also showed surveillance camera footage from that night in the courtroom.

At the moment, Simba La Rue and Baby Gang are under house arrest, the latter in a therapeutic community to “address substance abuse issues that have become closely related to the crimes in dispute”, as his lawyer had stated. Through the latter, Baby Gang had made known his willingness to “undertake a treatment path that would lead him to overcome these pathologies. And you direct it towards the construction of a new and healthier life path”.