The Berlin prosecutor has in the affair of the rapper Bushido charged against the heads of the Abou Chaker clan. The SPIEGEL learned from legal circles. Investigators accuse the brothers Arafat, Yasser, Nasser and Rommel of a series of crimes that are mainly related to the musician.
The alleged culprit is therefore Arafat Abou-Chaker, he is accused of, among other things, for attempted heavy predatory extortion, deprivation of liberty, dangerous assault and insult. Nasser and Rommel are all about aid.
Yasser Abou-Chaker allegedly kidnapped his two children against the will of their mother from Denmark. Criminal law is the suspicion of the deprivation of minors. The indictment covers about 100 pages and was completed on 17 September and recently collected. On SPIEGEL request, the defender of Arafat Abou-Chaker declined to comment. The defenders of other defendants left corresponding requests unanswered.
The background to the case is a dispute between Arafat Abou-Chaker and Bushido. Both were close friends and business partners for a long time. The musician even gave the clan chief a general power of attorney. Both separated last year. The dispute over money became a case for courts.
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Since the break Bushido fears the wrath of the clan. In a "star" interview in September 2018, his wife Anna-Maria Ferchichi said she was "afraid that someone would shoot me or my husband for revenge".
In November 2018, police special forces raided the property of Arafat Abou-Chaker in Kleinmachnow near Berlin. In January 2019, he was temporarily detained. Police arrested him during a trial in which he was charged with assault. Because of "missing grounds" he was released about two weeks later.
During the investigation, it was at times suspected that Arafat should have planned to abduct the rapper's wife and children. This accusation does not appear in the indictment. Arafat had immediately denied him last year.
