The singer of the German metal band Rammstein, Till Lindemann, who has been accused by several women of sexual assault after concerts, strongly denies these allegations, his lawyers said in a statement on Thursday.
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“Serious allegations were made against our client by various women on social networks, especially Instagram, Twitter and YouTube,” write the Berlin lawyers Simon Bergmann and Christian Schertz.
“It was repeatedly claimed that women at Rammstein concerts were drugged with GHB or alcohol to enable our client to perform sexual acts on them,” they add.
“These allegations are all false,” the attorneys say. “We will immediately take legal action against all such allegations,” they threaten.
The case began in late May with testimony from a 24-year-old Irish woman who accused the group’s singer-songwriter of drugging and sexually abusing her after a concert in Lithuania that same month.
This statement included the words of other young women, all of whom described more or less the same scenario.
The groupies were spotted, filmed or photographed in the front rows of the concerts to allow Lindemann to make his choice before inviting some of them to parties backstage. Some were then said to have been drugged before being attacked by the 60-year-old singer.
Several concert halls, notably in Munich and Berlin, where the German group is scheduled to perform in the middle of a European tour, have refrained from installing the area directly in front of the stage (“Row Zero”), where the singer would have spotted the young women.