The trapper known as Baby Gang has been convicted on the grounds that he ‘poses a significant danger to society’

The trapper Baby Gang in 2025 was the Italian artist with the highest number of monthly listeners on Spotify, reaching a record figure of 8.2 million. Today, Milan magistrate Chiara Valori highlights, in the grounds for the sentence of two years and eight months’ imprisonment handed down on 4 March, his “marked dangerousness”. In his past, between 2018—when he was a minor—and last year, “he has a number of previous convictions for offences including assault, affray, unlawful possession of a weapon, resisting arrest» and, whilst under house arrest in a community, «he knowingly and repeatedly failed to comply with the conditions of his release».

Born as Zaccaria Mouhib, of Moroccan origin, he has long been a regular feature in the legal news, as well as the streaming charts, with millions of followers and major collaborations with major rappers. This time, the conviction under the summary procedure came for receiving stolen goods and possession of an illegal pistol with the serial number filed off. He had already been jailed on 11 September 2025 after the Carabinieri, as part of a wider investigation by the Lecco Public Prosecutor’s Office, had found in a hotel room in Milan, where he was staying after performing at a concert by Emis Killa – who was not involved in the investigation - a semi-automatic pistol with the serial number filed off inside a napkin holder.

In court, Baby Gang had defended himself by claiming he had taken her along “for safety’s sake”, for fear of having his valuable jewellery stolen. As part of the Lecco investigation, he was sent back to prison in recent months, after having secured house arrest. The singer’s defence team, led by lawyer Niccolò Vecchioni, will nevertheless be able to appeal following the conviction handed down as a result of the investigations by  Public Prosecutor Maura Ripamonti.

“That’s enough now, just music,” the 24-year-old had said after the verdict, but a few days later he was arrested again. Judge Valori, explaining that the trapper cannot be granted general mitigating circumstances, writes, among other things, that he refused to “indicate the channel through which he obtained the weapon”. For the judge, his attempt to defend himself by “downplaying the facts” was futile.