The fallout from current allegations towards Rammstein’s Until Lindemann continues to reverberate with the band’s label, Common Music, revealing that they’ve halted advertising and promotion for the group amid a current investigation into the singer by German officers.
Following information {that a} probe had been initiated by prosecutors in Berlin on Wednesday (June 14), Common Music issued an announcement that reads as follows: “The accusations towards Until Lindemann have shocked us and we’ve the best respect for the ladies who’ve spoken out so courageously in public on this case,” the label stated, whereas additionally saying their suspension of promotion for the band, per the New York Instances.
“Preliminary proceedings have been initiated towards Until Lindemann on allegations referring to sexual offenses and the distribution of narcotics,” a spokesperson on behalf of the Berlin public prosecution’s workplace stated initially concerning the investigation, including that they launched it at their very own discretion, in addition to “on the premise of a number of felony complaints filed by third events.”
Final month, a fan who attended the band’s live performance in Vilnius, Lithuania wrote a sequence of posts on each Reddit and Twitter claiming that she was drugged throughout the present’s pre-party after being invited by a member of the Rammstein camp. She additional alleged that she was recruited to have intercourse with Lindemann underneath the stage throughout one of many present’s interludes, through which she declined.
Although the girl asserted that she was not sexually assaulted, she shared a number of images and movies of bruises that she awakened with the morning after the present, and claimed she was sick the whole day regardless of not consuming a variety of alcohol all through the night time.
After her posts went viral, a number of different ladies reportedly made allegations towards the singer on numerous social media platforms too, based on Barron’s. Rammstein denied the accusations in an announcement on their social media on Could 28, writing, “With regard to the allegations circulating on the web about Vilnius, we are able to rule out the chance that what’s being claimed befell in the environment. We’re not conscious of any official investigations into this matter.”
Following the accusations, Lindemann was dropped by his writer Kiepenheuer & Witsch. The corporate issued an announcement, writing that they “grew to become conscious of a porn video through which Until Lindemann celebrates sexual violence towards ladies and through which the 2013 e book In Nonetheless Evening printed by Kiepenheuer & Witsch performs a task,” and thus, they ended their relationship with him as a consumer.
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On June 3, Rammstein wrote one other assertion on their social media addressing the allegations, which you’ll be able to learn beneath [translated via Google Translate].
The publications of the previous few days have induced irritation and questions among the many public and particularly amongst our followers. The allegations hit us all very arduous and we take them extraordinarily severely.
We are saying to our followers: It is very important us that you simply really feel snug and secure at our exhibits — in entrance of and behind the stage.
We condemn any sort of transgressions and ask you: don’t have interaction in public prejudice of any type towards those that have made allegations. You might have a proper to your viewpoint.
However we, the band, even have a proper — specifically to not be prejudiced both.
