Rapper Nicki Minaj was once in short arrested and nearest fined at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Saturday on allegations that officers discovered “soft drugs” in her baggage, in step with Dutch government.
The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, which is the Dutch nationwide police company, posted to social media Saturday night time {that a} 41-year-old American lady who was once arrested on doubt of exporting comfortable medicine was once fined and spared from custody then officers consulted with native prosecutors. The volume of the high-quality was once no longer supplied.
Month Dutch police didn’t title Minaj because the suspect in query, the rapper posted video to social media of the ordeal. Within the video, she explains that police informed her that officials had allegedly discovered marijuana in her luggage, and that it might should be weighed.
Minaj’s video presentations a person in a swimsuit telling her that police wish to “search all her luggage.”
“The police officer told me we have to offload all your luggage, and to search everything of your luggage,” the person, who was once no longer right away known, says within the video.
“…He (a police officer) doesn’t believe you don’t have more with you than you said,” the person can be heard announcing.
Hashish is illegitimate within the Netherlands, however it’s tolerated for leisure worth.
Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, Record
Within the video, cops might be heard telling Minaj that she was once “under arrest” for “carrying drugs,” ahead of asking her to get in a van to exit to the police station.
Minaj, who was once born Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, denied the claims and asked a legal professional a couple of occasions ahead of entering the van.
Previous to Minaj’s shed, Robert Kapel, an army police spokesman, informed AFP that an “interrogation is still ongoing.”
A consultant for Minaj and the Amsterdam police didn’t right away reply to CBS Information’ request for remark.
Minaj was once in Amsterdam the place she performed a display at Ziggo’s Dome on Thursday. She was once on her approach to Manchester, England, for any other display that was once slated to tug playground Saturday night time as a part of her Red Friday 2 Global Excursion when the arrest came about. The Manchester venue the place Minaj was once slated to accomplish, Co-op Reside, introduced that Saturday’s display was once suspension consequently.
“Despite Nikki’s best efforts to explore every possible avenue to make tonight’s show happen, the events of today have made it impossible,” the Co-op wrote in a social media put up.
In a sequence of posts to X, Minaj claimed that the arrest was once an struggle to “sabotage my tour.”
“They’re being paid big money to try to sabotage my tour b/c soooooo many ppl are mad that it’s this successful & they can’t eat off me. They got caught stealing money from my travel/jets. Got fired. Got mad. Etc,” she mentioned.
Extra