A 16-year-old rapper, whose clip showing a point of deal in Grenoble is linked to videos that angered the authorities, was placed in police custody on Wednesday 2 September.
The prefect of Isère announced to the press that the young man had been arrested on Wednesday morning.
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This singer responding to the artist name of Corbak Hood had assured France 3 the day before that these images were only a "
staging
", denying any link between his clip and the drug trafficking that plagues the Mistral district, where it does not reside.
To buzz"
The teenager "
was taken into custody by the police officers of the Grenoble judicial police station around 8:30 am for incitement to the use or trafficking of narcotics, (...) to the use of substances presented as endowed with narcotic effects;
provocation, not followed by effects, to crime or misdemeanor by word, prohibited carrying of weapons, public insults towards a person holding public authority
”, specified the public prosecutor Éric Vaillant.
The acts referred to were committed in Grenoble "
between August 21 and September 1
", date of broadcast of the clip which includes the images of one of the two videos which provoked the ire of the authorities and led to a police raid on demand of the Minister of the Interior.
The rapper says he deliberately "
leaked
" these images on social networks to
create a
"
buzz
" and ensures that the weapons shown in his clip are "
fake
".
But the other video, shot from above and showing armed individuals dressed in bulletproof vests, is not included in the clip.
