Pete Doherty arrested

The former Libertines frontman was charged after a drunken...

17:24 07 December 2009

The former Libertines frontman was arrested for criminal damage following a drunken night out in Berlin, it has been reported.

According to reports, Doherty threw a pint glass at a parked vehicle, smashing the rear window.

The incident occurred outside the Trinkteufel club at around 7am on Saturday where Doherty had reportedly been consuming copious amounts of alcohol and asking bar staff where he could buy drugs.

Allegedly, he and two friends had been thrown out of another bar earlier.

A bartender from Trinkteufel venue is quoted in German magazine Bild as saying: "I almost threw them out too.

"He was drinking shots and constantly asking where to get cocaine."

German police arrested the singer following the incident, in which he smashed the rear window.

The Babyshambles singer was allegedly arrested and questioned by German officials for three hours before being charged with property damage and later released.

Doherty had already caused fury in the country after singing an outlawed Nazi-version of the German national anthem only a few days earlier at a Munich music festival.

The singer, who has just finished a short solo tour, later apologised through a spokesman, claiming he was "unaware of the controversy" surrounding the verse.