Sweden wants extension of rapper's detention after fight

US rapper A$AP Rocky is being held for another week in pre-trial detention to allow police to finish investigating a June 30 fight in downtown Stockholm, a Swedish court said Friday.

Stockholm's District Court decided to accept the request from prosecutor Daniel Suneson's to hold A$AP Rocky the stage name of Rakim Mayers until Thursday July 25. Mayer is being held for suspected assault.

Earlier, Suneson said police "have worked intensively" with the preliminary investigation but needed more time to complete their probe.

Once the investigation is complete, the prosecution will decide whether to formally charge the rapper.

On July 5, Mayers who was in Sweden to perform at a music festival, and his body guards were ordered held for two weeks after being detained two days earlier.

Videos published on social media, show a person being violently thrown onto the ground by Mayers. It was not clear who else was involved.

"This was a self-defense situation," his defense lawyer Slobodan Jovicic told reporters. Asked how A$AP Rocky felt about it, Jovicic replied this was "a very bad experience."
Espaillat said he has been in contact with the State Department and the US Embassy in Sweden and wants everyone to continue showing their support to help us in this process of getting justice for Rocky."
Kardashian West thanked the president and senior members of his administration, saying on Twitter that their "commitment to justice reform is so appreciated." Earlier this week, Sweden's top prosecutor Petra Lundh said "the fact that a suspect or a plaintiff is known is no reason for the person to receive a special treatment."