The neo-realism of Baby Gang puts us at a crossroads

Baby Gang sentenced to three years and four months in prison

The 23 year old trapper Baby Gangwhose real name is Zechariah Mouhibwas sentenced in the first instance for resisting a public official to three years and four months in prison. This was decided, with an abbreviated procedure, by the Milan magistrate Tommaso Perna in the context of the trial for the riots that occurred on 10 April 2021, in Milan, when Neima Ezzaaka Amine Ez Zaaraoui, was making a music video.

According to the numbers provided by the police, around 300 young people were present at the making of the clip in the San Siro area, including many minors, including Baby Gang And Neima Ezza. There was a throwing of objects at the police and Baby Gang he was accused of having called an unauthorized demonstration and of resisting a public official.

The defender of Baby Gangthe lawyer Niccolò Vecchioni, will appeal against the sentence, arguing that his client, as reported by Il Corriere della Sera, had not “even witnessed the outbreak of violence since he had left before the police arrived”. In the meantime, the autonomous prevention measures section of the Milanese Court has ordered special surveillance for the singer for one year and six months, deeming him socially dangerous. The judges, however, at the request of the defence, granted the 23-year-old authorization “to leave his home” for the tour which is about to start at the end of October and which “will visit some European cities”.

The report of Baby Gang with justice is one of those rather tormented, between 2020 and 2021, he was in fact referred for the crimes of defamation and violation of intellectual property, incitement to crime, illegal carrying of weapons, contempt of the Republic, of the institutions and of the armed forces, resistance and insult to a public official. And he received expulsion orders from the cities of Lecco, Milan, Cattolica, Misano Adriatico, Riccione, Rimini and Bellaria Igea Marina.