A French court in Draguignan (a southern French city in the Var region) convicted Moroccan pop star Saad Lamjarred on 15 May 2026 of raping a woman he met at a nightclub in Saint-Tropez in 2018, sentencing him to five years in prison. The 41-year-old singer, widely popular across the Arab world, was also ordered to pay his accuser €30,000 in damages and €5,000 in legal costs; prosecutors had sought ten years. The verdict adds to Lamjarred's mounting legal troubles: he was sentenced in 2023 to six years by a Paris court for a separate 2016 rape — a ruling he has appealed — and has faced similar accusations in Morocco and the United States.