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Partner Abou-Chaker, Bushido 2009: He needed protection, and Arafat protected him
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Urban Zintel / laif
The district court of Frankfurt an der Oder is an unlikely place for the big stage.
Built into the fields on the outskirts, the border to Poland very close, the asymmetrical building made of exposed concrete is reminiscent of one of these modern museums somewhere in Scandinavia.
In the parking lot, a couple of plainclothes officers are standing in front of the open hatchbacks of their VW buses.
Bushido is a little early this Tuesday morning.
Too early in court, that would be uncool, and he feels sick in his stomach.
He has the two armored BMWs stop in front of a bakery nearby.
They get out, his lawyer and four men with cargo pants, baseball caps and sneakers, they are bodyguards from the Berlin State Criminal Police Office who have been accompanying him everywhere and at all times for a year and a half.
Bushido wears black sweatpants and a black sweatshirt.
"In God We Trust" is written on the sleeve.
He's got a tank made of muscles, ten kilograms more, he's turned a little gray.
In God We Trust.
Trust in God.
Better is this.
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