A$AP Rocky played a pivotal role in the Stockholm brawl that he’s being held on by Swedish authorities — including pushing the victim to the ground, it emerged Friday.
The rapper and two other men “deliberately, together in agreement” beat, kicked and struck the victim with a bottle on June 30, prosecutors said in Stockholm District Court documents.
The assault left the man, identified Friday as Mustafa Jafari, with cuts, bruises and blood-stained clothes, according to newly-released photographs of the victim.
A$AP Rocky and two other suspects have been held in a Swedish jail since July 3. Rocky was charged with assault on Thursday.
The Harlem-born rapper has insisted he acted in self defense during the brawl in which video shows the rapper throwing a man to the ground.
But Jafari’s lawyer, Magnus Stromberg, said his client didn’t provoke the melee.
Stromberg said the fight erupted when one of A$AP Rocky’s guards “grabbed him by the neck and dragged him away.”
“There was no reason, none whatsoever, for the use of such violence,” he said.
Rocky’s jailing has gained the attention of President Donald Trump, who vouched for the rapper in a conservation with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven.In a July 19 tweet, Trump said he had a “friendly and respectful” phone conversation with Lofven, who “assured me that American citizen A$AP Rocky will be treated fairly.”
But things went downhill when Lofven declined to intervene in the case, prompting an online outburst from Trump this week.
“Very disappointed in Prime Minister Stefan Lofven for being unable to act,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “Sweden has let our African American Community down in the United States. I watched the tapes of A$AP Rocky, and he was being followed and harassed by troublemakers.”
With Post wires