Yassine Yakouti

1. Yassine Yakouti
Yassine Yakouti is a lawyer from a working class background. Brilliant, he draws from his childhood and
his different cultural codes a richness allowing him to defend causes that are close to his heart: deputies
from diverse backgrounds, employees spied on by the management of Ikea or even… The rapper Kaaris
after his altercation with Booba at Orly. Portrait of the man who has been part of the Council of the Bar
Association for two years.
Biography:
Yassine Yakouti, 40, grew up in a working-class environment in Antony, in the Hauts de Seine. Far from
the socio-cultural codes adopted by the majority of his future colleagues and lawyers, he learned to blend
into a world very different from his own when he entered the Paris bar. To succeed in wearing a lawyer's
robe, he must work hard and take a job as a delivery driver in parallel with his studies. This self-sacrifice
earned him a master's degree in law at Paris Sud with a specialization in business law, but also two
additional diplomas thanks to his double course in a business school.
As a young lawyer, he participated in the eloquence contest of the conference of the internship, an
institution dating back more than two centuries. Awarded, he becomes secretary of the conference and
sees the doors of success open to him. Previously deploring the unequal treatment between young people
from good families and those, like him, having no network or influence, he can finally rub shoulders with
the elite of the Parisian bar. The contacts he manages to make allow him to show his real value and to
plead in increasingly important cases. Initially a specialist in mergers and acquisitions, he turned to
criminal law.
Convinced by his abilities and his first successes, he founded the firm Yassine Yakouti in January 2011 with
the aim of reaching out to young people who, like him, come from a diversity background. He thus made
a name for himself and defended famous clients or intervened in high-profile cases. Ambitious since his
studies, he readily admits having "given the means" to achieve this notoriety, following a model that
shaped him: the very famous Jacques Vergès, nicknamed "the lawyer of terror" for having defended war
criminals.
In January 2020, he was elected to the Council of the Order as a member with the objective of
bringing "experience, youth, dynamism and work force" to the institutions.

2. Famous customers:
In recent years, the name of Yassine Yakouti has returned to the media sphere. An infamous case brought
him to the fore: the fight between rappers Booba and Kaaris in a duty-free at Paris-Orly airport. Defending
the interests of Kaaris, Yassine Yakouti pleads for the recognition of responsibility for the facts of the
"Booba clan". Difficult to find a real culprit in this case where neither of the two artists comes out
grown. The lawyer still had to intervene in the media in 2020 after a new accusation of a brawl concerning
Kaaris. The rapper is indeed quoted to have fought in Cannes after a simple history of refusal of priority
on the road.
Yassine Yakouti has also brought her know-how to a cause that is dear to her: that of Ikea employees spied
on by their leaders. In the end, the executives concerned were condemned and the employees won their
case.
Since 2017, he has defended LREM deputy M'Jid El Guerrab, convicted of assaulting socialist Boris Faure
with two helmet blows to the skull, resulting in emergency hospitalization in intensive care. The accused
recognizes his acts of violence but denounces a relentlessness on the part of the victim, particularly racist
insults having pushed him to take action. Expected in October 2021, the trial was finally adjourned to April
2022.
In 2019, Yassine Yakouti defends the Ferman brothers, alleged dealers from Dreux accused of feeding the
drug market in Brittany. He made a name for himself when he left a hearing to protest against wiretaps
made without his knowledge while he was talking with one of his clients. He finally obtains the partial
release of the two brothers.
At the end of 2020, he was mandated by the Council of the Order to support the lawyer Samia Maktouf,
representative of a victim of the Hyper Cacher attacks. Samia Maktouf having been the victim of death
threats, Yassine Yakouti is responsible for representing the support of the Council to their colleague.
Yassine Yakouti is also in contact with certain actors of organized crime in Paris, whom he represents in
legal cases. Inspired by his model Jacques Vergès, he believes that everyone has the right to be
defended. He is also responsible for defending trade unions.