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American rapper Travis Scott has been arrested after a struggle with a safety guard at a resort in Paris, in line with French prosecutors.
The “Sicko Mode” musician was taken into custody after workers on the five-star George V resort referred to as French police, following an altercation on Friday (9 August).
“The police had been referred to as to the George V resort to arrest the rapper for assaulting a safety guard,” the Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated, in line with French publication Valeurs. “The latter had himself intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard.”
A police supply informed Paris journalist Peter Allen that Scott had been taken into custody however that his “situation didn’t initially permit him to be questioned”.
In accordance to The Mirror, one other supply informed Allen: “The suspect was drunk and had been preventing with one other man – probably a receptionist within the resort. He was not in the proper situation to be questioned immediately, so was put in a cell the place he’s nonetheless sobering up.”
An investigation is now underway to find out the circumstances across the occasion.
Scott was within the metropolis to benefit from the Olympic Video games. He had been pictured supporting the USA males’s basketball staff of their semi-final match towards Serbia, alongside Migos rapper, Quavo.
The information comes after it was reported earlier this week, that the singer was set for a court docket look subsequent month, following a separate incident in Miami associated to a yacht struggle in June. A cost for disorderly intoxication has been dropped, nonetheless the rapper nonetheless faces a cost for trespassing.
On the time, he had been held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Centre for the “disturbance” on a constitution boat on the Miami Seaside Marina.
Scott, one of many largest names in hip hop whose beginning title is Jacques Webster, has greater than 100 songs that made the Billboard Scorching 100 and launched 4 singles that topped the chart: “Sicko Mode”, “Highest within the Room”, “Butterfly Impact”, “The Scotts”, and “Franchise”.
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He has two youngsters along with his former girlfriend, media persona and businesswoman Kylie Jenner.
Final 12 months, the rapper informed GQ, that he was “at all times considering” concerning the Astroworld tragedy by which 10 folks died after a crowd surge.
“I at all times give it some thought. These followers had been like my household. You recognize, I like my followers to the utmost,” Scott stated.