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Singer Chris Brown arrested in France on suspicion of rape: police source

FILE PHOTO: Recording artist Chris Brown poses at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards in Inglewood, California, April 3, 2016. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/File Photo

PARIS – U.S. singer Chris Brown was arrested in Paris on Monday with two other people on suspicion of rape, a French police source said.

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The arrests were first reported by Closer magazine, which said Brown, his bodyguard and a friend were detained after a 24-year-old woman alleged she was raped at the singer’s suite at the Mandarin Oriental hotel on the night of Jan. 15.

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The woman said she had met the men at a Paris nightclub earlier in the evening, according to the magazine.

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Neither Brown nor his agents could not immediately be reached for comment.

Brown, 29, whose previous legal troubles include assaulting singer Rihanna in 2009, remained in custody on Tuesday, a judicial source said.

Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in an incident that made headlines around the world when a photo of her bruised face was released.

In 2016, Brown was arrested in Los Angeles after a woman said he had pointed a gun at her. Brown denied any wrongdoing.

A rape conviction in France can carry a sentence of 15 years.

(The story was refiled to add the dropped word “said” in the first paragraph)

Reuters

22/01/2019

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