The German industrial metal band Rammstein arrives at the Madrid Metropolitan Stadium tonight (9:00 p.m.), after accusations filed by various followers of the band for sexual abuse by vocalist Til Lindemann. In several of the concerts of his European tour, protests have been formed and signatures are being collected to try to cancel some of the next ones.
As has already happened in Munich, where the group performed earlier this month and at other concerts on their European tour, some of those attending tonight’s show in Madrid are trying to resell their tickets they had bought months ago on social media, before all the allegations came to light.
The Berlin Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation into Rammstein singer Lindemann on June 14 for sexual offences. Several women have made accusations against the vocalist, in which they assure that they were previously selected and offered to attend parties after the concert in which cases of violence and abuse occurred.
The first testimony was that of a 24-year-old Irish girl who explained what happened after the band’s concert in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, on May 22. At this party organized by members of the band, to which the young woman was invited along with other girls, as stated in her police complaint, she was drugged without consent and the singer acted violently when she refused to have sex with him. She also made this story public on networks, where she attached a photo with the bruises all over her body with which she woke up the next day. Numerous women reacted by telling similar stories on social media about how a “casting manager” for the band recruited attractive young women under false pretenses to attend parties where they were later demanded to have sex with Lindemann. The group denied the accusations about the events at the Vilnius concert through their Twitter account.
There are three concerts of the band in Berlin planned for mid-July. However, as reported by Deutsche Welle, there are two petitions on digital platforms, signed by a total of more than 100,000 people, demanding that these concerts at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, a publicly owned venue, be canceled as a show of support for the victims.
In 2020, the vocalist published his third collection of poems in which he included several poems that narrated sexual abuse. In one of them he fantasized about raping an unconscious woman to whom he had earlier offered tranquilizers in a glass of wine. The publisher of the collection of poems, Kiepenheuer
