Freddie Gibbs has been charged with sexual assault in Austria. According to a Reuters report, the rapper has been charged with the assault of a woman in Vienna while he was on tour in 2015. Gibbs was arrested in June in France and then subsequently extradited to Austria, where he will stay in custody. A spokesman for Vienna's criminal court said "He is alleged to have administered knock-out drops to a woman and then have abused her sexually while she was in a defenseless state."

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If convicted, Gibbs would face a maximum of 10 years in prison. The court spokesman said the rapper has been charged with "sexual abuse of a defenseless or psychologically impaired person."

In a statement, Freddie Gibbs's lawyer Theodore Simon said, “While Freddie Gibbs was charged with an offense today, it remains only an allegation, and it does not in any way change the actual facts that Freddie Gibbs is 100% innocent."

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Read the entire statement below.