Actor Jussie Smollett is charged with disturbing the public order and give false testimony. This was stated by a spokesman for the police in Chicago on Wednesday.

The us actor, known from the tv series ‘Empire’, is suspected of having lied about an assault, which he reported in January.

Smollett, who is black and a declared homosexual, turned 29. January to the police in Chicago and told that he had been assaulted by two apparently supporters of the president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump.

According to Smollet were the two masked men have shouted racist and homophobic epithets after him, like they should have hung a noose on the neck of him, and poured bleach over him.

– Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation led by police in Chicago. He is suspected to have given false testimony to the police (a crime in the category of four), writing polititalsmand Anthony Guglielmi on Twitter.

Cops are just now to present evidence to a jury in Cook County, he adds.

Jussie Smolletts lawyers have not commented on the charges.

the Actor liable to between one and three years in prison if he is found guilty of having lied to the police.

the 36-year-old Smollett has held in its history since the notification. However, it has not been possible for the police in Chicago to find overvågningsvideo or pictures of the alleged assault.

Also on the social media is growing suspicion that Smollett has fabricated the assault.

In the last week heard evidence from the police two nigerian brothers who had been recognized on the overvågningsbilleder near the alleged crime scene. The brothers were released two days later without charge.

the Investigators explained the brothers ‘ release, there were found new evidence in the case.

Jussie Smollett has given numerous interviews about the alleged incident to the u.s. media, while his bruised face has been circulating on the social media.

the LGBT community, as Smollett is a part, responded with disgust, and u.s. senators such as Kamala Harris and Cory Booker condemned the attack.