(Berlin) The Rammstein drummer admitted on Friday that “things” that he found “personally not 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,” Christoph Schneider explained in a post, titled “My personal thoughts and feelings on the current situation. “, published Friday on Instagram.
“However, things have happened […] that I personally do not find correct,” he adds.
“The accusations of the past few weeks have deeply shocked us as a group and me as a man,” said 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 public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Wednesday.
“In recent years, Till has moved away from us and created his own bubble. With its own people, its own projects, its own parties. It made me sad, it’s true”, regrets the drummer.
This is the first time that one of the six members of the rock metal band has spoken publicly since the start of the case at the end of May. The first charges were brought by a 24-year-old Irish woman who claimed Till Lindemann drugged and sexually assaulted her after a concert in Lithuania.
These would have been spotted in the front rows of the concerts, filmed or photographed so that Lindemann could make his choice, before being invited backstage for parties.
Some would then have been drugged before being attacked by the singer.
While the group is in the middle of a European tour, calls for boycotts are increasing and after-concert parties have been banned during a series of dates in Munich.
Berlin made the same decision for the Rammstein concerts scheduled for July in the capital.
Universal Music announced on Thursday that it has suspended the group’s marketing and promotional activities.
