Nicki Minaj performed at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome on Thursday (File)
American rapper Nicki Minaj said on social media on Saturday that she was detained at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on charges of possession of soft drugs.
Minaj, 41, was detained hours before performing a concert in Manchester, England.
Dutch military police confirmed that a 41-year-old American woman was arrested for possession of soft drugs on Saturday, adding that it was prohibited to take such substances out of the Netherlands.
Police did not identify the suspect, but in a later post on the social media platform X said the woman had been fined and released at around 19:45 GMT.
-Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) May 25, 2024
This was 45 minutes after Minaj began playing a show in Manchester, England at the Manchester Co-op Live.
The singer had previously posted a video on X in which a Schiphol employee apparently told her that the police wanted to “search all her luggage”.
Another video on her social media showed a police officer saying she was “transporting drugs”. In the video Minaj denies this.
“Now they said they found marijuana and another group of people have to come here to weigh the pre-rolls,” she said in a follow-up post.
The former “American Idol” judge performed at Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome on Thursday and is expected to return there for another show on June 2.
Minaj is known for starting shows late. On Thursday she arrived on stage almost three hours after the announced start time.
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