Several videos of the rapper's arrest are circulating on social networks. - SADAKA EDMOND / SIPA

Rapper Mohamed Bellahmed, known as Moha la Squale, was placed in police custody on Friday in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The young man was arrested after a traffic stop, for refusing to comply, violence against a police officer and rebellion, we learned from a police source.

It was during a roadside check in the 18th arrondissement, in the north of Paris, that the police realized that the person they were checking was the subject of an arrest warrant for refusal to comply, according to this police source.

Several videos posted on social networks

However, this person managed to escape on foot before being caught and "hardly handcuffed", while the friend who accompanied him and filmed the scene tried to grab the arm of a police officer, according to the same source.

Several videos of the arrest circulating on social networks indeed show a man on the ground and three police officers who try to handcuff him while a young woman films the scene.

Rapper Moha La Squale violently arrested in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. pic.twitter.com/AY6AIlG5rf

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On the videos we also see that she grabs the arm of one of the three police officers, who tries to handcuff the man. A second policeman on the ground kicks the young woman who steps aside while passers-by shout "it's Moha the shark".

This is confirmed by the man arrested, once handcuffed, by shouting "this is Moha the Squale, the team". The 25-year-old Parisian rapper was taken into police custody for refusing to comply (subject of his search warrant), violence against a law enforcement officer and rebellion. Her friend was taken into police custody for violence against a police officer and obstructed by the police.

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