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In December 2025, Xavier Naidoo appeared unctuous and mildly purified on his sold-out tour, like a once-prodigal son. Barely two months later, the Mannheim singer is back with drastic political statements.
Child eaters and demons in front of the Chancellery
At a rally on Tuesday (February 18) in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, Naidoo made statements that catapulted him back into the Schwurbler camp. In front of the microphone he chose drastic formulations.
He literally spoke of “child eaters” and “demons” in reference to people who appear in the files. In addition, he said that people who “are cannibals themselves” have an interest “in us all becoming cannibals so that we can all go down to hell.”
Right-wing free riders and the Compact network
Naidoo once again left it open who exactly he meant by that. There is no evidence of cannibalism in the US documents; Above all, they document systematic sexual abuse of minors and the criminal networks surrounding Epstein.
The demonstration was called by right-wing free riders who want to exploit the Epstein scandal for their agenda – flanked in the media by the video channel of the right-wing extremist campaign network “Compact” around Jürgen Elsässer. Naidoo also explained on site that he wanted to talk to Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz about the contents of the so-called “Epstein files”.
Not a premiere: Naidoo’s story in the Schwurbler milieu
In the past, the singer has repeatedly appeared at events or in digital formats that are located in the context of conspiracy ideology. His comments on Tuesday follow on from earlier statements in which he broadly defamed political and social elites.
He had repeatedly spread theses that were attributed to the so-called Reichsbürger spectrum, including the claim that Germany was “still an occupied country”. He was also accused of anti-Semitic and right-wing populist statements. In 2022, the pop star released a video in which he apologized for previous statements. He did not mention any specific content, but spoke of having “lost his way”.
The end of the conciliatory story
The latest appearance in Berlin should end this phase of relative restraint. With terms like “child eaters” and “cannibals,” Naidoo once again resorts to drastic motifs that are common in conspiracy ideology discourse – without providing any evidence or concrete references. Whether and what consequences this appearance will have for his future artistic career remains unclear.
It also remains to be seen whether his patrons and mentors – such as concert promoter Marek Lieberberg, who has always campaigned for Naidoo’s comeback, or the rarely funny comedian Oliver Pocher – will react to this “relapse”. The conciliatory narrative that Naidoo simply “smoked weed a little too often” can no longer be maintained.
