INDIO, CA – APRIL 13: Singer Justin Bieber performs with Chance The Rapper onstage during day 3 of the 2014 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on April 13, 2014 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella)
An Argentinian judge said Friday that there is enough evidence against Justin Bieber to question him in a 2013 criminal case that arose during his South American tour.
Bieber is accused of sending bodyguards to attack a photographer outside a Buenos Aires nightclub. The trip was also when he was forced to apologize for defiling the Argentine flag on stage and got into trouble with police for allegedly spraying graffiti in Brazil and Colombia.
“The evidence from witnesses, footage and photos shows that he didn’t wanted his pictures taken,” Judge Facundo Cubas told The Associated Press in an interview. “That led his bodyguards to chase down after the photographers and it was followed by a beating.”
Cubas has now summoned Bieber for questioning and has formally asked Interpol to notify the singer that he has 60 days to appear in compliance with the summons. The judge says that he’ll issue an international arrest order if Bieber fails to comply.
Argentine photographer Diego Pesoa has alleged that he was beaten on the night of Nov. 9, 2013, by Bieber’s bodyguards outside the INK nightclub, where the singer and his entourage partied. According to Argentinian law, Bieber could face as little as one month or as much as six years in prison if he was convicted on a charge of causing injuries, the judge said.
Representatives for the Canadian-born singer could not be reached for comment.
