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Arafat Abou-Chaker – Process: What did the rapper Shindy know about the dispute with Bushido?

2022-08-08T16:32:24.480Z


In the proceedings against Arafat Abou-Chaker, a close companion should testify as a witness. But he refused, and the court fined him. An ominous audio file should now bring new insights.


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Witness Michael Schindler, aka rapper Shindy: "55."

Photo: Monika Skolimowska / dpa

»Grüß Gott«, says the rapper Shindy when he enters room 500 of the Berlin district court in the morning.

The 33-year-old grew up near Stuttgart and now lives in Munich.

The time in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria has obviously left its mark.

But he will not say much more than this common greeting in southern Germany this Monday in the trial against Arafat Abou-Chaker and three of his brothers.

Michael Schindler alias Shindy was once under contract with Bushido's music label Ersguterjunge.

When Bushido broke away from Arafat Abou-Chaker in autumn 2017 and wanted to end the collaboration with the clan boss, Shindy apparently got caught between the fronts.

Abou-Chaker is said not to have accepted the separation from Bushido at the time and demanded millions from Bushido.

According to the indictment, Abou-Chaker Bushido is said to have locked in January 2018, threatened, insulted and attacked with a plastic bottle and a chair.

For two years, Abou-Chaker has had to answer to charges of deprivation of liberty, attempted severe extortion and dangerous bodily harm, among other things.

The witness keeps to himself whether and to what extent Shindy could help to clarify the allegations against Abou-Chaker.

He doesn't want to talk about his time with Bushido and Abou-Chaker in court.

His first answer seems to be a mistake.

"Yes," Shindy replies to the presiding judge's question as to whether he knows Anis Ferchichi aka Bushido and the accused Arafat Abou-Chaker.

Shindy's lawyer would have liked to hear his client answer the rapper from then on to all further questions: "55."

Shindy is himself a suspect

The witness' lawyer points out to the judges that his client has a comprehensive right to refuse information under Section 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

According to his lawyer, rapper Shindy is a suspect in criminal tax law proceedings.

Almost every piece of information about any contact between Shindy and Bushido as well as Shindy and Abou-Chaker allows conclusions to be drawn about business and therefore possibly procedural relationships, says the lawyer.

That is why his client, as a witness in this process, has the right to refuse to provide information.

So Shindy's answer to every question from the court and prosecutors is, "55."

How does he know Bushido and Arafat Abou-Chaker?

"55." Has he been told that there was a scuffle between Bushido and Abou-Chaker on January 18, 2018?

"55." Did Bushido or someone else tell him about his separation from Abou-Chaker?

»55.« Does Shindy know the rapper Kay One?

"55."

Outside the hall, the rapper is relaxed.

Shindy wears sunglasses with a baseball cap, t-shirt, training pants and sneakers.

The gems sparkle on his bracelets.

In the hall he seems far less relaxed.

While he refuses to answer under the eyes of Bushido and Abou-Chaker as a witness, his right leg is constantly in motion.

It obviously pushes him out of the room.

But he may have to come back.

Because in the opinion of the court, the witness wrongly invokes Section 55 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

At the request of the public prosecutor's office, the chamber imposed a fine of 1,000 euros or eight days of imprisonment on the rapper for unjustified refusal to provide information.

Shindy's lawyer immediately lodges a complaint against the decision.

Now the Court of Appeal has to decide whether Shindy was right to remain silent in court or whether he should be summoned again as a witness and then have to be more talkative.

Should he also have to testify in the opinion of the Supreme Court, he will bow to this decision, the rapper has already announced.

If not, he faces six months in prison.

Meanwhile, the court has announced that Bushido will be heard as a witness again next Monday.

Then it should go to a secret sound recording.

According to the defense, the recording is intended to refute that Abou-Chaker attacked, threatened and imprisoned Bushido in January 2018.

Bushido's lawyer considers the audio file manipulated.

Source: spiegel

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