Baby Gang trapper sentenced because he 'has a pronounced social dangerousness'

The trapper Baby Gang in 2025 had been the Italian artist with the highest number ofmonthly listenerson Spotify, reaching the record quota of 8, 2 million. Today, Milan's Gup Chiara Valori highlights, in the grounds of the sentence of 4 March to two years and eight months imprisonment, his "spectacular profile of dangerousness". In his past, between 2018 when he was a minor and last year, he 'has several previous convictions for offences including personal injury, brawling,unlawful possession of a weapon, resistance' and when he was under house arrest in a community 'he consciously and repeatedly failed to comply with the prescriptions'.

Born Zaccaria Mouhib in Morocco, he has long been a protagonist of the judicial chronicles, as well as of the streaming charts, with millions of followers and major collaborations with heavyweight rappers. The shortened sentence, this time, came for reception and possession of an illegal pistol with a defaced serial number. He had already ended up in prison on 11 September 2025 after the Carabinieri, in a broader investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Lecco, had found in a hotel room in Milan, where he had slept after performing at the Emis Killa concert - unrelated to the investigation - a semi-automatic pistol with an abraded serial number inside a napkin holder.

Before the judge, Baby Gang had justified himself by claiming that he had brought it 'for safety', for fear of being robbed of his valuable jewellery. As part of the Lecco investigation, he ended up in jail again in recent months, after he had obtained house arrest in the Milan proceedings. The singer's defence, with lawyer Niccolò Vecchioni, will still be able to appeal after the conviction arrived following the investigation by Pm Maura Ripamonti.

"That's enough, just music", the 24-year-old had said after the verdict, but a few days later he was still arrested. The gup Valori, explaining that the trapper could not be granted general extenuating circumstances, wrote, among other things, that he did not want to 'indicate the channel through which he obtained the weapon'. For the judge, his attempt to defend himself by 'minimising the facts' was useless.