PARIS (AFP) – United States (US) rapper Travis Scott was in police custody for a second day yesterday after being detained following a fight at a Paris five-star hotel, prosecutors told AFP.
“The detention has been extended,” a source at the prosecutor’s office confirmed yesterday morning.
Early on Friday, Paris prosecutors had said “police were called to the George V hotel and arrested Travis Scott for violence against a security agent. The latter had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard.” A US representative for Scott said on Friday evening that the rapper’s management was in “direct communication with Parisian authorities to swiftly resolve this matter and will provide updates when appropriate”.
Scott has been a regular visitor to Paris and was at the Olympics men’s basketball semi-finals in Paris on Thursday evening. He released a social media video showing himself at the game.
He also released images later of himself at a Paris nightlife venue.
Scott has had previous brushes with the law in the US.
