“I woke up with a start, he was behind me and trying to sodomize me.” This is what the third woman filing a rape complaint against rapper Lomepal told Médiapart. Two people have already filed charges of rape against the singer in 2020 and 2023, including a victim whose acts allegedly took place in New York. According to the testimony of the new complainant, the events took place in January 2017 at the singer’s mother’s house in the south of Paris.

The young woman, now 33, explains: “A few years ago, I told myself that there would be no point in filing a complaint, that nothing would change. Now, when I see all these women talking, I tell myself that I don’t see why I would continue to protect him.” She reports having said “no”, “stop” and “stop” before saying “what is it that you don’t understand when someone tells you no?”. To which he reportedly replied: “We know very well what it means when you say no.” The 32-year-old rapper denies any violence or coercion, saying: “I would never even imagine doing that to someone who was asleep.”

On February 27, Lomepal was briefly placed in police custody. He had been confronted with the first two complainants, and following this interview the custody measure had been lifted for “continuation of preliminary investigations” had indicated the Paris prosecutor’s office. The investigations were launched after the filing, in 2020, of a complaint from an acquaintance of the rapper, who accused him of having raped her in 2017 in New York.

Many women spoke out on social networks in 2023 to denounce the singer’s inappropriate behavior. Among them, there was the singer and editor-in-chief of Joly Môme, Jenna Boulmedaïs. She made public the testimonies against the artist in the French musical world: “It has been two years now that I have heard, in the music world, testimonies from women who have suffered inappropriate and unwanted gestures. by Antoine Lomepal. The whole music industry knows about it. This silence is literally no longer possible.” The French Music Federation had filed a complaint against the singer.