Las Vegas police said Thursday they are investigating an incident involving French basketball player Victor Wembanyama’s security team.belongs to the staff of the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA and a pop star Britney Spears.

Spears said on Instagram that she just wanted to say hi to the player. “Traumatic experiences are not new to me”, but “I was not prepared for what happened to me last night”he explained. “I recognized the athlete in the hotel lobby on my way to dinner. Later I went to a restaurant in another hotel and saw him again. I decided to go to him and congratulate him on his success.”

β€œHe was making noise, so I tapped him on the shoulder a bit to get his attention. I know the player’s statement where he said I grabbed him from behind but I just tapped him on the shoulder“, he explained.

“Then his security punched me in the face without looking back, in front of a crowd of people. They wanted to knock me down and forced my glasses off my face,” he said.

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The situation prompted the singer to file a report with Las Vegas police about the alleged incident that took place Wednesday at Catch Restaurant at the Aria Resort & Casino, according to TMJ.

“On July 5, 2023, at approximately 11 p.m., LVMPD officers responded to a property in the 3700 block of Las Vegas Boulevard in reference to an assault investigation,” police said in a statement Thursday to Time.

The incident was documented in a police report and no one was arrested or charged. We will not provide any further details at this time,” the police said.

Wembanyama is in Las Vegas playing his first games with his new team in the Summer League.

The 2.22-meter-tall young center was recognized Wednesday night at the entrance to the restaurant by a group of people, including Spears, who according to news reports_, the Wembanyama security member pushed who, according to the singer’s husband Sam Asghari, behaved “violently” and “out of control”.

Wembanyama said on Thursday that he only learned that Spears was involved in the incident hours after they had dinner. “He walked with some members of the security team to the restaurant. We were in the lobby and there were a lot of people, some people (were) calling me, obviously“, he said.

One “person called me ‘sir, sir’ and grabbed me from behind, so I didn’t see what happened because I was walking and we were talking about not stopping,” said 19-year-old ‘Wemby’. – I only know that the security guards pushed her, I don’t know how much.

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