The Berlin public prosecutor’s office announced Tuesday that it was ending the investigation opened in mid-June against Rammstein singer Till Lindemann, accused of sexual assault.
“The evaluation of the available evidence (…) and the hearing of the witnesses did not make it possible to establish that the defendant had non-consensual sexual relations with women,” writes the Berlin prosecutor’s office, about the singer of the group. german group.
The case began at the end of May with the testimony of a 24-year-old Irish woman who accused the singer and lyricist of the group of having drugged and sexually assaulted her after a concert that same month in Lithuania.
Other young women then testified, all describing more or less the same scenario.
Drugged and sexually assaulted
The groupies would have been seen in the front rows of concerts, filmed or photographed for Lindemann to choose from, before some of them were invited to backstage parties.
Some would later have been drugged before being attacked by the singer, currently 60, who denied it through his lawyers.
Outrage over the allegations had led to protest rallies ahead of the band’s concerts in several countries, as well as the cancellation of after-parties in Germany.
The success of Rammstein, the best-selling German-speaking group in the world, is mainly based on the excess of the concerts, with lots of pyrotechnics, guitar riffs and the imposing physical presence of Till Lindemann.
Source: BFM TV
