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“Silence is gold, man,” said Xatar in interviews. And that he was also not clear that he is not a 31er, i.e. not a traitor. Now the musician is dead – and takes his biggest secret to the grave.
On the evening of May 8th, Xatar, with a bourgeois name Giwar Hajabi, was found lifeless in an apartment in Cologne. The cause of death has not yet been known, a toxicological finding is pending. The sympathy is great. Fans, rap colleagues and other companions mourn the artist.
Xatar and the gold
In 2009, Xatar achieved dubious fame through a spectacular attack. Together with several accomplices, he stopped a van in Ludwigsburg as a supposed policeman, kidnapped his driver – and disappeared with around 120 kilos of dental gold and jewelry with a total value of 1.8 million euros.
He then fled to Iraq, but was caught there and later delivered to Germany. He admitted the crime in court. However, there was no trace of stolen gold – until today. “My account was attached by the tax office,” said Xatar at the time, to justify the crime. “I needed money for my second album.”
From jail to the charts
After his release from prison in 2014, the promotion: Xatar became the pioneer of a new generation of German street rappers. He was hard, authentic and business -minded. Despite the regulations, he never really let the chapter “Gold Driven” rest. On the contrary: again and again he sprinkled clues and made hints, because he was asked about the topic again and again.
In his autobiography “Everything or nothing”, which appeared in 2015, he also described a scene from the courtroom: The prosecutor shouted during the trial in the courtroom: “It cannot be that the boys here tell all the time that they do not know where the gold is increasing at record height and we let ourselves be sold by these gentlemen.” Xatar also wrote that he had become “listed” – and asked his lawyer in the courtroom about the current gold price in order to then expect. Maybe only as a provocation, maybe there was more behind it.
The treasure remains gone
In 2015, Xatar also answered Steffen Hallaschka’s questions at Stern TV. When he asked the prey immediately, Xatar said. Hallaschka Hakte: “You were tortured in Iraq and you didn’t reveal it.” His tight answer: “Maybe I really didn’t know …”
The next media -effective campaign followed in 2018: At that time, Xatar published a video in which he raffled on ten times 100 grams of gold. Comment: “I have been asked for ten years: Where is your gold?”
He also did not leave the topic for the premiere of his biographical film Rheingold (2022), staged by director Fatih Akin. On the red carpet in Cologne, he said grinning: “For everyone who always questions where my gold is: please!” Then he introduced his wife Farvah.