A DRC court has given Koffi Olomide a three-month suspended prison sentence Thursday for injuring his producer in a fight in a Kinshasa hotel.
Olomide fought in a hotel room with his music producer Diego Lubaki who was then visiting kinshasa for a few days.
Gombe court in Kinshasa heard that Olomide went to the hotel and confronted the producer, better known as “Diego Music”.
Olomide wanted to discuss Euros6000 he had paid the producer for a video that was never produced. In the process a fight broke out and several hotel security agents had to intervene. Olomide was subsequently arrested.
Lubaki said Thursday he wanted to drop the charges against Olomide, the judge continued the trial.
“He wanted to withdraw charges in favour of social peace and peace between him and the one he calls his big brother,” said one of Lubaki’s lawyers.
Still, Olomide was convicted of assault and battery but acquitted of another charge of malicious destruction, after the hotel room door was damaged in the fight.
A conviction on that charge could have earned him a much tougher sentence — up to five years in prison.
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