Canadian pop star Justin Bieber has been
charged with assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto last month. The 19-year-old handed himself in at a Toronto police station where he
was mobbed by TV crews, news photographers and screaming teenage fans. The
charge comes a week after he was arrested and charged for a separate incident
in Florida for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
Toronto police
say that Justin Bieber was one of six people picked up by a limousine outside a
nightclub in the early hours of 30 December. "While driving the group to a
hotel, an altercation occurred between one of the passengers and the driver of
the limousine," a police statement said. "In the course of the
altercation, a man struck the limousine driver on the back of the head several
times.
"The
driver stopped the limousine, exited the vehicle and called police. The man who
struck him left the scene before police arrived." After surrendering to
police on Wednesday, the singer was charged with one count of assault and is
scheduled to appear in court in Toronto on 10 March.
Howard
Weitzman, Mr Bieber's lawyer in California, said the entertainer was innocent
and that he expected the case to be treated as a summary offence, which is the
equivalent of a misdemeanour in the United States.
Source:
BBC
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