The american actor Jussie Smollett has been arrested in Chicago. This was stated by a spokesperson for the police, writes the news agency Reuters.
the Actor, who is known from the tv series ‘Empire’, are charged with disturbing the public order and give false testimony.
the Suspicion is that he must have lied about an assault, which he reported in January. According to the AP shall Smollett have reported themselves at the police station.
the Actor is black and homosexual, and 29. January, he turned to the police and reported an assault.
Jussie Smollett has told us that he had been attacked by persons he described as supporters of the president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump.
In the explanation it said that the two men should have shouted racist and homophobic epithets after him. In addition, they should have hung a noose on the neck of him.
the Actor must also have been informed, that overfaldsmændene must have poured bleach over him.
But in recent weeks, the 36-year-old actor has gone from being a victim to being a suspect in the case.
The attorneys representing Smollett, has announced that they will conduct their own investigation.
As one, every other person has Mr Smollett entitled to a presumption of innocence, say attorneys Todd Pugh and Victor Henderson in a statement, according to AFP.
– This is particularly true in an investigation such as this, where both true and false information has been repeatedly leaked, they added.
Two men have been arrested in the case, but were both released without charge after two days.
Investigators became suspicious after two men repeatedly said that they had been hired to stage overfattet.
