Adèle Exarchopoulos appears at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, following the film Chien 51. The image keeps the actress’s public face at a distance from the legal case concerning her. Credits: LucaFazPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Rapper Doums, whose real name is Mamadou Coulibaly, appears this Monday, June 29, 2026, before the Paris criminal court. He is being tried for alleged repeated violence against his ex-partner Adèle Exarchopoulos. Opened after a complaint filed in 2024, the case requires precise judicial handling. It must remain removed from the celebrity angle that the notoriety of the two protagonists might suggest.
A Criminal Hearing In Paris
According to Franceinfo, Doums is being tried for acts characterized as repeated domestic violence committed by a spouse or ex-spouse. The period in question would span from 2017 to 2025. The public radio also reports a total incapacity for work of more than eight days. The file would be examined with legal recidivism noted.
Le Parisien places the hearing at the Batignolles courthouse in Paris. At this stage, the public stake lies less in the well-known identities in the case than in the judicial examination. The justice system must assess allegations of repeated domestic violence. The presumption of innocence remains intact for the acts judged this Monday.
A Complaint Filed In 2024
According to Franceinfo and Le Parisien, the procedure concerning the Adèle Exarchopoulos Doums file dates back to October 2024. It was then that the actress reportedly filed a complaint. Mamadou Coulibaly was subsequently placed in police custody on January 22, 2026. According to elements reported in January by Franceinfo, he was brought before the Paris prosecutor two days later.
After this transfer, the rapper was placed under judicial supervision. Franceinfo mentioned several obligations. Among them: prohibition of contact, prohibition from appearing near the residence, treatment, no weapons, and regular check-ins. These measures do not amount to a conviction. They govern a person under investigation pending trial.
A Qualification To Handle With Caution
Repeated violence designates, in criminal law, a repetition of alleged acts rather than an isolated episode. In this case, the material details of the alleged acts still need to be publicly established. The same applies to the defense’s position and any claims by the civil party. In the absence of a publicly issued decision, one must therefore write that Doums is prosecuted or being tried. One must not write that he committed the acts.
Adèle Exarchopoulos’s lawyer cited by Franceinfo, Marie Grimaud, is acting for the civil party. The case may also raise questions of privacy protection. The two former partners are parents of a child. This element does not justify intimate details in the account. It only serves to remind that the case combines judicial publicity and the protection of the people involved.
Another Conviction To Distinguish
Doums’s recent judicial record includes another case. It is separate from the one opened after Adèle Exarchopoulos’s complaint. In February 2026, the rapper was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment with a suspended probationary sentence. This domestic violence proceeding concerned his current partner, according to 20 Minutes.
In the proceeding examined on June 29, 2026, legal recidivism is mentioned by media citing the prosecutor. The February conviction belongs to a different file. Without a decision or published act establishing the exact legal link, it should not be presented as the basis for this recidivism. The two procedures involve different complainants, periods, and judicial decisions.
A Trial Followed Beyond Tabloid Coverage
Adèle Exarchopoulos was brought to public attention by Blue Is the Warmest Color. Doums, for his part, is a former member of the collective L’Entourage. Their notoriety explains the media attention, but it must not shift the focus. The core of the case remains a criminal hearing devoted to alleged domestic violence. It concerns their qualification and the procedural safeguards that frame the examination of the facts.
The trial should specify the facts charged by the prosecution, the defense’s arguments, and the civil party’s requests. Depending on how the hearing proceeds, an immediate decision or a possible reserved judgment may also be announced. As long as these elements are not public, the article should remain straightforward. Information should be attributed to judicial sources, procedures distinguished, and the presumption of innocence recalled.