Celebrities at the End of January was ‘Empire’actor Jussi Smollett (36) the victim of homophobic violence. Two white men beat him, put a rope around his neck and threw a chemical substance on him. A terrible crime, but the voices that the entire thing was staged, sound increasingly louder. Smollett was in the meantime arrested for making a false declaration.
On January 29, the Chicago police called for a hate crime. Jussi Smollett, a 36-year-old actor, was at two o’clock at night, walking, when two unknown assailants approached him. They yelled racist and homophobic insults at him, beat him and threw an unknown chemical substance on him. As if that wasn’t enough, wrapped one of the perpetrators a rope around his neck. Then fled into the two attackers. The world reacted shocked. Fox, the studio behind ‘Empire’, let us know if one man is behind her, the actor, and several celebrities expressing their support. Earlier he received the office of Fox Studios in Chicago already a threatening letter, addressed to Smollett. In it was in cut-out letters: “You will die, black gay men.”
The Chicago police immediately began an investigation, which is closely followed by the American media. Soon came a first irregularity. During an additional interrogation reminded the actor that his attackers ‘MAGA’ cried. That is an acronym for president Trump’s favorite slogan: “Make America Great Again’. Chicago police confirmed that Smollett that later the inspectors told. But come, it may happen by the shock, right? The police team had in any case also know that he is a full cooperator in the study and that they were looking for images of the evening running to see what happened. On the images that they had, were the faces of the attackers not to see.