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Didier Maruani intends to file a complaint for slander to the Russian singer Philip Kirkorov. This was the leader of the French group Space at a press conference in Moscow, the BBC reports .

"The way Kirkorov behaved is a trap is a crime. My lawyers will file a complaint with the prosecutor's office for slander," Maruani said.

According to Kirkorov, 60 police officers came from Kirkorov, who "behaved unkindly, as in bad detective cinema," said the French musician. According to him, Maruani, he was forbidden to talk with someone, took a mobile phone.

Maruani also said that in the police department, employees asked him about a selfie. "The police wanted to make a selfie with me. I told them: you behaved like that, but now you want a selfie?" - said the musician.

Maruani noted that he is ready to demonstrate more than 60 messages received from Kirkorov. The French musician believes that he received these letters precisely from Kirkorov, and not from prankers.

The leader of the Space group also accused the Russian singer of theft of more than 30 songs by different performers. He said that his friend, also a composer, also intends to sue Kirkorov. “My friend wrote a song for Dalida, and Kirkorov is without the permission of the quail,” Maruani claims. He clarified that we are talking about Kirkorov’s song “The most, the most”.

The lawyer Yuri Trunov, who was detained with Maruani , said that he had already written an application to the prosecutor’s office for Kirkorov and his lawyer about false denunciation. Trunov also said that he and the French musician voluntarily went to the police, where they spent 8 hours. Meanwhile, the video shows that the police are seated by Maruani in the car.

The night before, Maruani and Trunov were detained in the office of Sberbank on Pokrovka . The musician and lawyer were supposed to sign a settlement agreement with Kirkorov, however, the police and lawyer of the Russian singer Alexander Dobrovinsky were waiting for them in Sberbank.

"Philip Kirkorov appealed to the police with a statement on extorting to him Trunov and Maruani 1 million euros for not to disseminate negative information about them," Dobrovinsky said. The press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that, according to Kirkorov, a pre-investigation check was launched. "There are no detainees at the moment. Officially, a person is not detained until a protocol on detention has been drawn up," the press service noted.

At about three in the morning of the night, Maruani was released from the Basmanny police department, having a conversation with him. At the same time, the police apologized to him, but did not return the seized phone.

On Wednesday, a source in law enforcement agencies said that the police would not initiate a criminal case of extortion in the relationship of Maruani and Trunov.

The conflict of musicians is associated with copyright violations. The French musician accused Kirkorov of plagiarism in the song "Cruel Love." According to experts, this composition is the processed version of the Symphonic Space Dream Maruani song.

On November 28, Trunov said that the parties managed to agree on a pre -trial manner. According to him, Kirkorov recognized the claims of Maruani and the Space group and even agreed to pay compensation. However, Dobrovinsky denied this and claimed that there were no agreements.

On Tuesday, TASS reported with reference to Dobrovinsky that the correspondence from Maruani on behalf of Kirkorov was conducted by Prankers Vovan and Lexus ( Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov ). Later, Vovan confirmed that he spoke to Maruani on behalf of Kirkorov, after which the parties had already directly agreed on the details of the meeting and a specific amount. “We simply handed over the materials, and apparently the lawyers of the Dobrovinsky considered that there were suspicions of extortion in the things that Maruani allegedly wrote about,” Kuznetsov said.