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Argentina judge: There’s evidence against Bieber

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013 file photo, Canada's pop star Justin Bieber performs in concert during his Believe world tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An investigative judge in Argentina is summoning Justin Bieber for questioning, accused of sending bodyguards to attack a photographer outside a Buenos Aires nightclub during his 2013 South American tour. Judge Facundo Cubas asked Interpol on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2014, to use all "necessary means" to notify the singer that he has 60 days to appear before the court in Argentina. The judge says that if Bieber fails to comply, an international arrest order will be issued. (AP Photo/DyN, Pablo Molina, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013 file photo, Canada's pop star Justin Bieber performs in concert during his Believe world tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An investigative judge in Argentina is summoning Justin Bieber for questioning, accused of sending bodyguards to attack a photographer outside a Buenos Aires nightclub during his 2013 South American tour. Judge Facundo Cubas asked Interpol on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2014, to use all "necessary means" to notify the singer that he has 60 days to appear before the court in Argentina. The judge says that if Bieber fails to comply, an international arrest order will be issued. (AP Photo/DyN, Pablo Molina, File) FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2013 file photo, Canada's pop star Justin Bieber performs in concert during his Believe world tour in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An investigative judge in Argentina is summoning Justin Bieber for questioning, accused of sending bodyguards to attack a photographer outside a Buenos Aires nightclub during his 2013 South American tour. Judge Facundo Cubas asked Interpol on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2014, to use all "necessary means" to notify the singer that he has 60 days to appear before the court in Argentina. The judge says that if Bieber fails to comply, an international arrest order will be issued. (AP Photo/DyN, Pablo Molina, File)

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) – There’s enough evidence against Justin Bieber to question him in a criminal case, an Argentine investigative judge said Friday.

Bieber is accused of sending bodyguards to attack a photographer outside a Buenos Aires nightclub during a 2013 South American tour, during where he apologized for defiling the Argentine flag on stage and got into trouble with police for allegedly spraying graffiti in Brazil and Colombia.

“The evidence from witnesses, footage and photos shows that he didn’t wanted his pictures taken,” Judge Facundo Cubas told The Associated Press in an interview. “That led his bodyguards to chase down after the photographers and it was followed by a beating.”

Cubas summoned Bieber for questioning Thursday and asked Interpol to notify the singer that he has 60 days to appear. The judge says that he’ll issue an international arrest order if Bieber fails to comply.

Argentine photographer Diego Pesoa alleges he was beaten on Nov. 9, 2013, by Bieber’s bodyguards outside the INK nightclub, where the singer and his entourage partied.