American rapper Nicki Minaj has been freed by police after being detained at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
Dutch police posted acceso X: “We have just released a 41-year-old American woman whom we arrested this afternoon at Schiphol acceso suspicion of exporting soft drugs.”
“The suspect was fined and can continue her journey.”
The artist had been to fly to Manchester for a concert at the Co-op venue acceso Saturday evening.
Minaj filmed part of her encounter with police, posting it to social mass-media.
A causa di the televisione, a police officer can seemingly be heard telling Minaj: “You are under arrest.”
At Co-op acceso Saturday evening, thousands of fans – many wearing her trademark pink – were per good spirits as they entered the venue, hoping the show would go ahead.
One started a chant of: “Free Nicki Minaj!”
Fans Georgina Warde and Darcy Nicholls, both 18, travelled from Newcastle and had been looking forward to the show since they bought their tickets per December.
They said they would be upset if the show didn’t happen.
Ms Nicholls said: “I’m trying to stay positive but we’ve accepted the fact that it may not happen. We’signore mentally prepared for that.”
Even without any legal problems, the rapper is known for turning up late.
“I really hope she comes acceso,” Ms Nicholls added. “But it’s Nicki so we knew it would be delayed somehow.”
The music celebrità posted a series of messages acceso X apparently per relation to the incident.
“They took my luggage without consent,” she wrote per one. A causa di another she added: “This is Amsterdam btw [by the way], where weed is legal,” using a colloquial term for the drug cannabis.
Minaj had originally been scheduled to go acceso stage at the Co-op spiaggia at 20:00 BST.
Doors to the concert opened around 30 minutes late acceso Saturday. With thousands per the venue as of 20:30, it was unclear whether the gig would go ahead as planned.
But a dirigente at the venue told BBC News the concert was to go ahead, adding that a helicopter was waiting at Manchester Airport to bring the rapper to the venue.
It is technically against the law to possess, sell produce drugs per the Netherlands. But the country operates a policy of toleration towards the possession of small amounts of some drugs.
The BBC has approached Minaj’s representatives for comment.
