Kofi Olomide Jailed for damaging hotel room's door
Koffi Olomide, one of Africa's most popular singers, has been sentenced to a three-month suspended jail for assaulting his producer. The rumba star, 56, was arrested after a fracas on Wednesday at a hotel in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Correspondents say the courtroom was packed to see the star, who leads the Quartier Latin band. Earlier this year, he had denied charges of raping three of his dancers in France. The altercation with his producer, Diego Lubaki, was over a debt of 3,000 euros ($3,680, £2,345), the court heard. Mr Lubaki said he wanted to drop the charges, but 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'," one of his lawyers is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. The court convicted Olomide of assault and battery but acquitted him of malicious destruction to property, after the hotel room door was damaged i...
