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It is the fourteenth day of the trial against Arafat Abou-Chaker and three of his brothers. For the vast majority of days, one person in particular spoke in room 500 of the Berlin regional court: Anis Ferchichi aka Bushido. The rapper has become something of a key witness against the Abou Chaker clan. The armed police ensure its safety. They escort Bushido into the lobby every morning and protect him from the Berlin clan boss.
Bushido and Arafat Abou-Chaker have worked together extremely profitably for many years. They both made millions. But according to Bushido Abou-Chaker owes his money mainly to him. Bushido presents his business relationship with Abou-Chaker as a pact with the devil. In September 2017 Bushido finally got bored and gathered his courage. This is what he said the day before the trial.
Abou-Chaker called him into the office on September 24, 2017 to talk about business in Switzerland. But Bushido no longer wanted to do business with him. He told him too. Abou-Chaker was perplexed and was silent for a while. Then he apparently accepted and said, “Okay, but it’s not that easy.” Bushido was relieved. From then on, once a week he asked Abou-Chaker if he had thought about how to accomplish the separation. Abou-Chaker discouraged him. At some point he should have started to threaten. Bushido, on the other hand, provoked in his own way.
In early November 2017, Bushido advertised Ashraf Rammo’s coffee on Instagram. This is a good place to “relax and have a shisha”. “You have to see it,” he wrote under a photo. Ashraf Rammo belongs to another clan from Berlin. No problem for Bushido. “Ashraf Rammo is a very, very nice guy,” he said in court on Wednesday. He laughs. “Today is perhaps the wrong day to talk about it.” On Tuesday, members of the Rammo clan were arrested in connection with the art theft in the Green Vault in Dresden.
For his post on Instagram he had “a lot of problems” from Arafat Abou-Chaker. Abou-Chaker called from Brazil, where he was at the time. Bushido shouldn’t advertise “no coffee”. “Arafat never mentioned the name Ashraf Rammo.” For him, the Rammos were just “these people”.
After Abou-Chaker’s return there was a meeting with Bushido in November. There was also Yasser Abou-Chaker, brother of Arafat and co-defendant. Bushido learned that his separation intentions were making the rounds. Yasser Abou-Chaker asked. “Yes, you’re right, I don’t want to have anything to do with your brother on business,” Bushido told him. Mohammed, another brother of Arafat Abou-Chaker, intervened.
“This doesn’t work”, he would say: “It doesn’t matter what happens: there will be no Bushido without Abou-Chaker and no Abou-Chaker without Bushido”. Arafat Abou-Chaker himself is said to have stayed that day.
A few days later, the clan leader and the rapper were in front of Bushido’s house. Bushido summarizes Abou-Chaker’s announcement and the subsequent exchange of words.
“If I find you are doing something behind my back, not only will a bomb go off, but an atomic bomb will go off.”
“Do you want to threaten me?”
“We’ll see what happens.”
The next meeting is on 7 December 2017. Abou-Chaker insulted Bushido calling him a “bastard” and “son of a bitch” and said: “Your eyes will fall at how much money you owe me!” One word resulted in another. Bushido says he understood that Abou-Chaker did not want to break up. “He just didn’t want to.”
Mobile phone stored in the microwave
One day Nasser Abou-Chaker, another brother, tried to change Bushido’s mind. You could take a break for six months until calm returns and your mind has calmed down. “No, the matter is resolved for me,” Bushido said. Nasser Abou-Chaker continued to fight. People were talking, there were voices. “Other clans, other rappers would make fun of them.” Bushido remained true to his decision and Arafat Abou-Chaker wanted money.
A few days later, Abou-Chaker and Bushido met on their shared property in Kleinmachnow, Brandenburg. Abou-Chaker had a huge wellness area which included a swimming pool built in the basement of the villas without a building permit. Bushido says he was not involved in the planning nor had he ever seen the accounts. He paid only for this: around 400,000 euros. Suddenly Abou-Chaker wanted another million euros from him. “This was the biggest bullshit I’ve ever heard.”
The next meeting in mid or late December. They met in the Puderstrasse office. “Then Arafat closed the door.” Bushido was not surprised. At other meetings he had to hand over his cell phone, which was then placed in the microwave. For security reasons. “We lived through the bullshit of the Mafia movies.”
Bushido says he thought they would finally clarify how a separation could be carried out. But Abou-Chaker made it clear to him that Bushido was a kind of company for him that belonged not only to Anis Ferchichi, but also to him, Abou-Chaker.
“The problem is”, Bushido tells the president of the court, “I’m not a shop. I can’t give him Bushido.” What does Abou-Chaker mean, what belongs to his body, he asked him then. Half of his tongue? His right arm, with which he holds the microphone? Abou-Chaker replied that Bushido is his property, then opened the door again.
The president asks if Bushido felt locked in the room. “No,” he says, “that would be a lie.”
In January 2018 it may have been different. According to the indictment, Arafat Abou-Chaker would have closed the door again. Then he is said to have massively insulted Bushido and attacked with a half-full plastic water bottle and chair. The prosecutor’s office assesses it, among other things, as deprivation of liberty and dangerous personal injury.
Anis Ferchichi is expected to talk about that day the next day of the deal. After a three-week hiatus, the trial will continue on December 14th.
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