By Anne Losensky
If you rap, you share. If you rap, you take it. A rapper is tough. But Shindy prefers to draw the nappy-soft “I-don’t-feel-that-like” card to avoid dishing out in court…
Day 94 against the clan brothers around Bushido’s former manager Arafat Abou-Chaker (46). The clan boss is said to have demanded several million euros from the rapper, whose real name is Anis Ferchichi (44), for the end of their lucrative business relationship, which made both of them multi-millionaires.
A photo from earlier times: Bushido and his friend Arafat “Ari” Abou-Chaker Photo: picture alliance/ Eventpress Schulz
On January 18, 2018, the rapper is said to have been locked up, pelted with a bottle and a chair. The process has been running since August 2020. The clan brothers are silent, Bushido unpacked. Judgment maybe in early summer.
SHINDY AND THE WAR. Michael Schindler aka Shindy (34) is a rapper and music producer. For years he was with the label “ersguterjunge” (album “Never Work Again”). In November 2018, Shindy said cryptically in an interview: “The last few months have been absolute psychological terror.”
Rapper Shindy at an earlier trial where he was called as a witness Photo: dpa
At the time, he said about the escalating power struggle between his former label bosses Bushido and Arafat: “I have the feeling that they think: Whoever wins me over in the end also wins the war.” But now Shindy doesn’t want to get caught between the fronts of this dirty war .
On the morning of his testimony, his lawyer calls and says: Shindy does not feel “healthy enough to appear as a witness in court today”.
Judge Martin Mrosk (41) looks frustrated: The process has to be extended again! An audio expert has yet to testify. He examined the alleged conversation recording from the day of the crime, which Arafat Abou-Chaker pulled out of a hat in the middle of the process, to see if it was genuine.
The report has 40 pages. Arafat’s audio file should be “met with cautious skepticism,” says Bushido lawyer Steffen Tzschoppe. Software was probably used, there are at least two places that are “conspicuous”. Apparently there shouldn’t be any metadata either.
The trial of Arafat Abou-Chaker and his brothers has been running since August 2020. So far, trial dates are planned until May 4th. It continues on April 25th.