Rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Paris in the early hours of Friday morning following an altercation with a security guard outside the city’s swanky George V hotel.
Per a Paris public prosecutor statement police were called to the hotel after the rapper was violent to the guard.
“The latter himself had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” read the statement, posted by local media outlets.
The FranceInfo radio network, reported that sources close to the incident said the rapper was heavily drunk and agitated and refused to cooperate with taking a breath test.
Earlier in the evening, Scott watched the French basketball team beat Germany in the semi-final of the Olympics basketball contest in Paris.
Posting on his X account, he described the match – which will see France face the U.S. in the final – as f**king wildddddd”.
Video footage posted on the social networks showed the rapper being chased by paparazzi as he left the event, even turning to the police for help as crowds started to gather around him.
Friday morning’s arrest, a few hours later, comes less than two months after Scott was arrested in Miami for disorderly intoxication and trespassing.
According to Miami Beach Police public information, the 33-year-old rapper was arrested after getting into a dispute with boat crew on a chartered yacht.
He was released on bond after paying $500 on the disorderly intoxication charge and $150 on the trespassing charge.
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