The British singer Pete Doherty is to be interviewed by police in Germany today amid allegations that he was seen drunkenly breaking and entering a record store.
Police in Regensburg, southeast Germany, have told Doherty to present himself for an interview today. His hotel room in the Bavarian city was searched after the incident in which a witness identified him as one of three raiders of the shop. Nothing incriminating was found in his room.
Police said they have invited Doherty to a “secret location” to discuss his whereabouts at the time of the crime and who he was with.
A guitar and CDs were stolen in the break-in at the store in Regensburg’s old town, where the Libertines frontman is filming scenes for his role in a French movie.
His name was given to police by the witness who confirmed they are conducting an investigation but refused to say if he was the main suspect. Michael Rebele, a Regensburg police spokesman, confirmed however that someone with a “prominent name“ was being investigated in connection with the break-in.
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Several German newspapers and websites carried reports about it today.
According to media reports the witness observed three “obviously drunk, English-speaking men“ hitting the window of the shop at about 3am on Tuesday morning.
“Was it Doherty or a doppelganger?” asked the Mittelbayerische newspaper headline.
The woman identified one of the men as Doherty, it is alleged. The Mittelbayerische newspaper reported her saying to police: “It was him, I recognised him.”
She said she heard all three men speaking English and rang the police after she got back to her flat.
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Doherty, 31, is no stranger to controversy with his drug excesses and his turbulent relationship with the supermodel KateMoss.
He is in Regensburg filming Confessions of a Young Contemporary for a French production company in which he plays a womanising 19th-century poet.
In the costume drama, Doherty plays Alfred de Musset, a Frenchman who turned his tumultous love affair with the woman writer George Sand into a novel The Confession of a Child of the Century.
The Anglo-French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg, 39, plays the female lead.