Travis Scott reportedly initially resisted a breathalyzer test and refused to confirm his identity.Image: AP
American rap icon Travis Scott has been released without charge after 36 hours in police custody in Paris on suspicion of violence.
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Travis Scott, one of the biggest stars of American rap, was released on Saturday without charge after thirty-six hours in police custody in Paris on suspicion of violence, AFP learned from one of his representatives in the United States.
Asked by AFP, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed “the lifting of Travis Scott’s police custody today (Saturday) as well as the classification of the procedure, the offence being insufficiently characterised».
Early Friday morning, the police were “called to the Georges V hotel and (had) arrested the man nicknamed Travis Scott for violence against a security guard. The latter himself intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the public prosecutor reported Friday.
According to a police source, the rapper was accused of attacking the head of the hotel’s night security team and injuring him when the latter tried to intervene. According to the same source, Travis Scott initially resisted a breathalyzer test and did not want to confirm his identity.
Hit in the forehead following the altercation with his bodyguard, Travis Scott first received treatment at the hospitalthe police source further indicated.
In this investigation entrusted to the 1st judicial police district, the rapper was placed in police custody on Friday morning, a measure which was lifted on Saturday at midday.
“We are in direct contact with the local Parisian authorities in order to resolve this situation quickly.”
The artist’s representative, in a message to AFP
The star had posted a video on Instagram on Thursday evening showing him at Bercy, where the basketball events of the Paris Olympic Games are being held. On the same account followed by 57 million subscribers, he then posted images of his presence at a nightclub party.
The rapper rose to fame in 2015 with his debut album, “Rodeo.” Since then, the Houston native has become a figure in American rap and has released four more albums, including the hit “Astroworld” (2018).
Real name Jacques Bermon Webster II, Travis Scott had two children with his ex-partner, American influencer Kylie Jenner. He has already had some legal troubles across the Atlantic. In June, he was arrested in the United States, in Miami Beach (Florida), for disturbing the peace while he was drunk. (chl/ats)
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