A$AP Rocky will be held in Sweden for two weeks under suspicion of assault, the BBC and New York Times report. Rocky was apprehended Tuesday night (July 3) on suspicion of assaulting a man on the street in Stockholm. Sweden’s Prosecution Authority chose to proceed with formal action, but reduced the charge from aggravated assault to assault, the BBC reports.
Rocky will miss several high-profile concerts including a headline set at London’s Wireless on Sunday. “He of course is very disappointed and this is a catastrophe for his tour,” Rocky’s lawyer, Henrik Olsson Lilja, told The New York Times. The lawyer says Rocky acted in self-defense.
Earlier this week, Rocky shared footage of the incident, saying the alleged victims had been following them. In the video, the victims appeared to accuse Rocky and two men with him of breaking a pair of headphones.
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