This is the moment famous American rapper Travis Scott was arrested early this morning in central Paris after an altercation at a five-star hotel.
“Police officers were called to the Georges V hotel and arrested Travis Scott for assault on a security guard who had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard,” the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Footage shows Scott sitting in the back of a French police car with his hands behind his back.
Another clip shows the musician being handcuffed and escorted into a police car, while 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 newspaper reported Current values reported.
Footage has emerged of Travis Scott being arrested in Paris on Friday morning following an altercation at a hotel
Travis Scott and Michael Rubin attend the men’s basketball semifinals between Team USA and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 8, 2024 in Paris, France
The Four Seasons Hotel George V is an Art Deco monument dating from 1928 and is located in the Golden Triangle of Paris, just off the historic Champs-Elysees.
The incident is said to have taken place around 5am, near the Champs-Élysées.
According to a police source, the rapper was drunk at the time of the confrontation.
“He was not in the right condition to be questioned right away, so he was put in a cell where he is still sobering up.”
The singer was due to be questioned by judicial police on Friday. A police source in Paris 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.
Footage shows Scott in the backseat 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 into a police car
The rapper was handcuffed in the back of a French police car on Friday morning
Earlier reports in France originally said Scott had had an argument with his bodyguard.
Scott’s attorneys have not yet commented on his arrest.
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympic Games.
He was notably seen on Thursday evening, August 8, when he attended 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 “disorderly event on a yacht.”
Officers questioned him about whether he had been drinking. Scott replied, “It’s Miami.”
He responded to the chaos of the night with a series of light-hearted tweets aimed at calming his fans’ fears about his upcoming tour. Shortly after his arrest, an edited version of his blurry photo was released.
Travis Scott attends the men’s basketball semifinal match between Team France and Team Germany on day thirteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Bercy Arena on August 8, 2024 in Paris, France
Travis Scott arrives at his hotel in Paris for the Olympic Games
A general view of the ‘Four Seasons George V’ Palace on April 14, 2011 in Paris, France
Scott is currently in Paris for the Olympic Games
Travis Scott attends the men’s basketball semifinal between Team USA and Team Serbia on day thirteen of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Scott then wrote ‘lol’ at X and shared his booking photo, complete with photoshopped sunglasses and earphones, via Instagram Stories.
The Sicko Mode singer is the former partner of Kylie Jenner, with whom he has two young children, Stormi and Aire.
Scott and the 26-year-old Kylie Cosmetics founder have been in an on-again, off-again relationship since 2017, but are currently not together.
Just a week before his arrest in June, Scott was involved in a scuffle with Jenner’s former ex Tyga in Cannes.
The rapper has had several run-ins with the law over the years.
He played a major role in the 2021 “Astroworld” disaster, which killed ten people and injured hundreds more while they attended the rapper’s music festival at NRG Park in Houston, Texas.
On November 5, 2021, hundreds of people were filmed storming through the VIP entrance of the Live Nation-organized event, sparking fears of overcrowding and poor crowd control.
Travis Scott was arrested overnight for allegedly inciting a drunken brawl on a yacht in Florida. His hilarious reaction during questioning by police was captured in a sworn statement seen by DailyMail.com.
Pictured: An edited version of the photo Scott shared on Instagram hours after his arrest
Travis Scott was filmed continuing to perform after eight people were crushed to death, including two victims aged just 14 and 16. One witness described the scene as a “floor full of bodies.”
Videos circulated on Twitter showing the crowd chanting, “Stop the show, stop the show!”
Although the concert was declared a mass casualty event at 9:38 p.m., the concert went on until 10:15 p.m. Scott, who was the headliner and promoter of the festival, was widely criticized for this.
The rapper and festival organizers Live Nation and ScoreMore were jointly faced with several civil lawsuits accusing them of negligence and wrongful death.
However, last June, a grand jury in Houston ruled that Scott would not face criminal charges for his role in the deadly mob.
In November last year, two years after the stampede, Scott broke his silence in an interview with GQ in Astroworld. He said he was “extremely devastated” by the tragedy and that he thought about the disaster “all the time.”
Scott said, “When you’re making music, you think about things that are happening in life and things that are happening in your life, and you focus on things. That moment for families, for the city, you know, it was devastating. And when it came to making it, even finishing the album… I probably got caught up in it again, I don’t know, months and months and months afterward.
‘And the idea of just being back into music, working on music and just being with it, was therapeutic, so I could put some of my energy into the production and the sounds and finishing it.
“I mean, I was just upset, you know. Yeah… Yeah, I always think about it. Those fans were like my family. You know, I love my fans so much.
In May of this year, Scott and Live Nation settled nine wrongful death lawsuits.