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On August 8, 2024, a video of Travis Scott turning to the French police for protection from the paparazzi in Paris made the rounds on social media. The rapper was accosted by photographers on exiting the Olympics Men's Basketball semifinals on Thursday evening.
In the video, Scott was seen approaching two police officers on bikes and talking to them while his team surrounded him. One officer got off the bike and accompanied the rapper to a certain distance. The video also showed several fans surrounding the rapper and taking pictures of him.
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As the video went viral on social media, many wondered if the rapper was roaming the streets of Paris without security. One person tweeted:
Others shared the sentiment, with a few commenting on the incessant stalking demonstrated by the paparazzi.
"Bro pulling up to Paris with no security is crazy ngl," one person tweeted.
"Imagine being paid to stalk people that’s what paparazzis are," another person added.
"This should be illegal," another user tweeted.
"If Travis Scott doesn’t feel safe in Paris , he should enter his private Jet and comeback home. Remember he’s a father of two young children that need him," a netizen wrote.
However, others found humor in the situation, joking about the paparazzi singing Travis Scott's 2023 hit song FE!N.
"There’s no way the paparazzi started singing FE!N to him i’m dead," one person commented.
"Bro was really saying "FEIN, FEIN, FEIN," another person added.
"Bro started dancing to get away," someone else jested.
Travis Scott was in Paris to watch the Team USA vs Serbia basketball match
On August 8, 2024, Travis Scott was at the Olympics Men’s Basketball semifinals between Team USA and Serbia with fellow rapper Quavo. The two were pictured on the sidelines cheering for their home team, who won the match and will progress to the finals. Scott also tweeted that the game was:
"f***ing wilddddddd."
Following this, he ran into paparazzi who followed him to his hotel. A few hours later, Scott came out to confront the photographer lingering outside his hotel. Another video taken later showed Travis Scott interacting with the paparazzi with the roles reversed.
The rapper pulled out his phone and started filming the photographers, berating them for following him all day. The paparazzi in the video said they were following him as he rarely makes pitstops in Paris. Scott was seemingly displeased with the answer and replied:
"Go to sleep, y'all too grown for this."
In the early hours of August 9, Travis Scott was arrested by French police after an altercation with hotel security at the George V luxury hotel. Local police claimed the rapper was heavily intoxicated and refused to take a breathalyzer test.
According to NBC News, the Paris prosecutor's officer released a statement detailing the arrest.
"I can confirm that on August 9, 2024, police officers were called to the George V hotel and arrested the rapper nicknamed Travis Scott for assaulting a security guard. The security guard had intervened to separate the rapper from his bodyguard. The Paris public prosecutor’s office has referred the case to the 1st district of the judicial police," the statement read.
The rapper, aged 33, is reportedly spending the night in a jail cell. This came just hours after the bodycam footage of his Miami arrest in June 2024 was released online.
