Olomide was arrested later that night as he left a local TV station where he had gone for an interview. In the TV interview, Olomide denied assaulting his dancer, claiming he did not kick her but was rather trying to protect her from a mugger. Revisiting the July 2016 incident, Olomide claimed he had suffered injustice for the incident and how he was handled. The sentence allowed Olomide to return to France after a decade, where his family lives. In another incident, on December 28, 2012, Olomide was accused of kicking Rwandan photographer Jean Nepomuscene Ndayisenga during a performance at Pamodzi Hotel in Lusaka.

Source: Daily Nation March 14, 2020 09:00 UTC