Nicki Minaj was arrested in Amsterdam early today, reports citizen journalist Nicki Minaj. She documented her encounter with Dutch police in great detail on social media, claiming that Dutch authorities were being paid to “sabotage” her current European tour “because so many people are upset that the tour has been so successful and they can’t make money off me.”
In a series of videos, Minaj eventually made her way to her next show in Manchester, England, where she was detained by Dutch police for suspected marijuana possession. The Netherlands is a well-known marijuana tourist destination, but marijuana has a somewhat tricky legal status in the Netherlands. FYI, Minaj said the marijuana didn’t belong to her, but to a member of her security team. It has repeatedly stated that it is not interested in cooperating with the Dutch authorities.However, he was calm and very polite. Par varietyMinaj was indeed detained at least briefly (placed in vehicle impoundment, which will now become an epic story to tell to her vehicle impoundment friends) before she was eventually released.
Minaj has reiterated on social media that she believes there is an effort to somehow sabotage her current tour, writing, “They’ve been trying to stop me from coming to every show. They took my luggage before I could even see it, loaded it onto the plane, and now they’re saying I’m waiting for customs. This is what happens when people who are getting paid a lot of money try to sabotage the tour after everything else fails. Everything they’ve done is illegal.” Incidentally, all of the officials in the video seem sorry and a little embarrassed about their actions, probably because they know it’s being broadcast to 230 million people. Minaj says that at least one of the pilots she spoke to tried to remove her posts about the matter from social media.
