This is the moment famous American rapper Travis Scott was arrested in central Paris early this morning after an altercation in a five-star hotel.
“Police were called to the Georges V hotel and arrested Travis Scott for violence against a security guard. The latter had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The images show Scott in the back of a French police car with his hands behind his back.
In another clip, the musician is seen handcuffed and escorted to the police vehicle as blue and red lights flash.
The American rapper, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was arrested by gendarmes at the George V Hotel in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital, the French media reported. Current values reported.
Footage has emerged of Travis Scott’s arrest in Paris on Friday morning following an altercation at a hotel.
Travis Scott and Michael Rubin attend the Men’s Basketball Semi-Final match between Team USA and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Bercy Arena on August 8, 2024 in Paris, France.
The Four Seasons Hotel George V, an Art Deco landmark built in 1928, is located in Paris’ Golden Triangle, just off the historic Champs-Élysées.
The incident is said to have occurred around 5 a.m., just steps from the Champs-Élysées.
According to a police source, the rapper was drunk at the time of the confrontation.
“He was not in a condition to be questioned immediately, so they put him in a cell where he is still sober.”
The singer was due to be questioned by the judicial police on Friday, as a source from the Paris police confirmed that his “condition did not initially allow him to be questioned.”
He is suspected of “violence against another person and is being held in a cell,” the source said.
The images show Scott in the back of a French police car with his hands behind his back.
The American rapper, whose real name is Jacques Bermon Webster, was arrested by gendarmes at the George V Hotel in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital.
Video shows rapper in handcuffs being escorted to police car
The rapper was handcuffed in the back of a French police car on Friday morning
Previous reports in France had originally said Scott had had a fight with his bodyguard.
Scott’s attorneys have not yet commented on his arrest.
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympics.
He was most notably seen on Thursday evening, August 8, attending the men’s basketball semi-final between Serbia and the United States.
This comes after the rapper was arrested in Miami in June after being involved in a “yacht disturbance.”
Police questioned him about whether he had been drinking. Scott replied: “It’s Miami.”
He also responded to the night’s chaos with a series of light-hearted tweets to calm fans’ fears about his upcoming tour, and an edited version of his bleary-eyed mugshot taken shortly after his arrest.
Travis Scott attends the Men’s Basketball Semi-Final match between Team France and Team Germany on day thirteen of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at Bercy Arena on August 8, 2024 in Paris, France.
Travis Scott arrives at his hotel in Paris ahead of the Olympics
General view of George V’s Palace of the Four Seasons on April 14, 2011 in Paris, France
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympics.
Travis Scott attends the men’s basketball semi-final match between Team USA and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Scott then wrote “lol” on X and shared his booking photo complete with Photoshopped sunglasses and headphones via Instagram Stories.
The Sicko Mode singer is Kylie Jenner’s ex-partner, with whom he has two young children, Stormi and Aire.
Scott and the 26-year-old Kylie Cosmetics founder have been in an on-and-off relationship since 2017, but are not currently together.
Just a week before his arrest in June, Scott was involved in a skirmish with Jenner’s ex, Tyga, in Cannes.
Over the years, the rapper has had a few run-ins with the law.
Most notably, he was at the forefront of the 2021 ‘Astroworld’ disaster, where 10 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured while attending the rapper’s music festival at NRG Park in Houston, Texas, in a deadly crush.
On November 5, 2021, hundreds of people were filmed stampeding for a VIP entrance at the Live Nation-hosted event, sparking fears of overcrowding and poor crowd control.
Travis Scott was arrested overnight for allegedly causing a drunken altercation on a Florida yacht, and his hilarious response during police questioning was recorded in an affidavit seen by DailyMail.com.
Pictured: An edited version of the mugshot Scott shared on Instagram hours after the arrest.
Travis Scott was filmed continuing to perform after eight people were crushed to death, including two victims aged just 14 and 16, with one witness saying it was a “floor of dead bodies”.
Videos circulating on Twitter showed the crowd chanting “Stop the show, stop the show!”
Although the concert was declared a mass casualty event at 9:38 p.m., the show continued until 10:15 p.m., bringing harsh criticism to Scott, who was headlining and promoting the festival.
The rapper, along with festival organizers Live Nation and ScoreMore, faced numerous civil lawsuits accusing them of negligence and wrongful death.
However, in June of last year, a Houston grand jury decided that Scott would not face criminal charges for his role in the deadly mob rampage.
In November last year, two years after the stampede, Scott broke his silence on Astroworld in an interview with GQ, saying he was “so devastated” by the tragedy, adding that he thought about the disaster “all the time.”
Scott said: ‘When you make music, you think about the things that happen in life and the things that happen to you in life, and you focus on them. That time for the families, for the city, you know, it was devastating. And when it came time to make, or even finish the album… I went back to it probably like, I don’t know, months and months and months later.
“And the idea of getting back into music, working on music and just getting into that, it was therapeutic to be able to channel some of the energy into production and sounds and finishing it.
‘I mean I was very devastated, you know. Yeah… Yeah, I always think about that. Those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans to the max.
In May of this year, Scott and Live Nation settled nine wrongful death lawsuits.