An investigating source added: “He was not in the right condition to be questioned straight away so he was put in a cell where he is still sobering up.”
The insider added that Scott – born Jacques Bermon Webster – was drunk when the brawl exploded at the George V hotel near the Champs-Élysées in central Paris.
Footage of Scott at the city’s Bercy Arena showed him alongside his rapper pal Quavo, 30, as the pair shouted at the court as they watched Team US progress to the Olympic Games basketball final.
The singer was due to be questioned by judicial police on Friday, but a Paris police source said his “condition did not initially allow him to be questioned”.