French authorities confirmed they’ve taken rapper Travis Scott into custody after an alleged assault on a safety guard on the five-star George V resort on Friday morning.
“I can verify that on August 9, 2024, cops have been referred to as to the George V resort and arrested the rapper nicknamed Travis Scott for assaulting a safety guard,” the Paris prosecutor’s officer mentioned in an announcement.
Scott attacked the guard after he tried to interrupt up an altercation between the 33-year-old rap star and his bodyguard. Referencing the guard, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned “the latter himself had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard. The Paris public prosecutor’s workplace has referred the case to the first district of the judicial police.”
French prosecutors instructed the Reuters and AFP information companies they’d opened a prison investigation into “unspecified violence” in opposition to the guard.
Scott has not but commented on the Paris arrest, however is anticipated to be launched shortly. A rep for Scott mentioned in an announcement to The Hollywood Reporter: “We’re in direct communication with the native Parisian authorities to swiftly resolve this matter and can present updates when acceptable.”
Earlier within the night, Scott attended the semifinal of the lads’s Olympics basketball, the place the French basketball crew beat Germany to advance to face the U.S. within the ultimate. Posting on X (previously Twitter), Scott described the match as “f**king wildddddd.”
The FranceInfo radio community, quoting sources near the incident, mentioned on the resort Scott seemed to be closely drunk and agitated and refused to cooperate with taking a breathalyzer take a look at.
The ten-time Grammy winner was arrested in Miami lower than two months in the past for disorderly intoxication and trespassing after getting right into a dispute with a ship crew on a chartered yacht. Scott was launched on bond after paying $500 on the disorderly intoxication cost and $150 on the trespassing cost. His legal professional mentioned that the incident was a easy “misunderstanding.”
