The Rammstein drummer admitted Friday that "things" he did not find "personally correct" had "happened" around the singer of the German group, accused by several women of sexual assault. "I don't think anything forbidden happened, or at least I didn't notice it," Schneider said in a post, titled "My personal thoughts and emotions about the current situation," posted Friday on Instagram. "However, things have happened (...) which I personally don't think are correct," he adds. "The accusations of the last few weeks have deeply shocked us as a group and me as a man," says Christoph Schneider.
Till Lindemann, 60, is accused by several women of sexual abuse at backstage parties after the band's concerts. What the singer denied through his lawyers. The Berlin prosecutor's office opened an investigation on Wednesday. "In recent years, Till has distanced himself from us and created his own bubble. With his own people, his own projects, his own parties. It made me sad, it's true, "regrets the drummer.
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This is the first time that one of the six members of the metal rock band has spoken publicly since the beginning of the case at the end of May. It was a 24-year-old Irish woman claiming that Till Lindemann had drugged and sexually assaulted her after a concert in Lithuania who made the first accusations. A wave of accusations against the singer of the German-language group who has sold the most albums in the world followed, drawing the contours of a real system of sexual predation targeting groupies after concerts.
These would have been spotted in the front rows of concerts, filmed or photographed so that Lindemann could make his choice, before being invited backstage for parties. Some would then have been drugged before suffering the assaults of the singer.
While the band is in the middle of a European tour, calls for a boycott are multiplying and post-concert parties have been banned during a series of dates in Munich. Berlin has made the same decision for the Rammstein concerts scheduled for July in the capital.
Universal Music announced Thursday that it has suspended the group's marketing and promotional activities.