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After being arrested by the police on Wednesday night and taken into custody, rapper Zola was finally released and will be able to play at the Rose Festival this evening, as planned.
Good news for Zola fans, the rapper will indeed be performing on stage this Saturday night, at 8:10 p.m., as planned in the Rose Festival line up. Fans of his trap, a musical trend from hip-hop, will be able to attend his performance, for the third night of this edition. It must be said that he has won over a large audience thanks to his albums “Cicatrices” (2019) and “Survie” (2020).
However, it was not a foregone conclusion. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, the 24-year-old rapper was in fact taken into custody after refusing to comply in Essonne. He was driving a Mini Cooper S at over 200 km/h, with his headlights off, on the A6 motorway towards Paris. A team present at the scene then signaled him to stop in order to carry out a road check.
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But the rapper continued his journey and left the highway towards his home. However, he was arrested near his home during the night, the police explained, and taken into custody. He tested positive for narcotics.
This story risks tarnishing Zola’s reputation. While the country is tense following the death of a police officer last Monday, hit by a reckless driver after refusing to comply, last March, Zola himself had expressed, in a post on Instagram, his anger at the announcement of the release of a motorist who had killed his mother at the wheel in June 2023.
