A$AP Rocky testifies at his trial in Sweden: 'We wanted to defuse the situation'
Rocky claimed that Jafari got into an argument with one of his bodyguards when the group stopped outside a fast food restaurant in order to download phone apps to use electric scooters located around Stockholm. “After a while, my security guard started pushing him away, begging him to leave, go from there,” he said. “Me and my crew told them that, listen, don’t go where we are going, go the other way, we don’t want any trouble.
When the fight eventually broke out on a nearby street, Rocky claimed he only entered the fray after Jafari and his friend attacked his bodyguard. “At this point I intervened,” he said. “I threw [Jafari] to the ground, and stepped on his arm, kicked him. I punched or shoved him.” “We’re in a foreign country, we’re approached by two strangers with aggressive behavior,” he said. “Ten months ago when I was with my cousin… I was stabbed in my face by strangers.” He continued, “I don’t know what to expect when being attacked by strangers, that’s why I have security. At that moment I wasn’t thinking.”
, Martin Persson, a lawyer for Rocky’s co-defendant Bladimir Corniel, pressed Jafari when he returned to the stand about stills from video footage of the fight that did not seem to show anyone holding a bottle., they brought up a text message sent by his assistant that read, “Harlem came out and smashed a bottle on a person,” suggesting “Harlem” was A$AP Rocky.
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