The German magazine Der Spiegel should not have spread that Rammstein singer Till Lindemann regularly drugged women and then had sex with them.
This was decided by the court in Hamburg on Thursday. The Mirror must therefore partially withdraw the six-page piece in question.
This is an article that appeared in the magazine on June 10 of this year. Several women accused Lindemann of sexual misconduct. Some of them claimed, among other things, that the singer drugged them in order to perform sexual acts on them.
Lindemann has consistently denied the allegations against him. The court has now ruled that the article of The Mirror not enough evidence. The magazine should not have claimed that Lindemann drugged women so he could have sex with them. What The Mirror the court should have done was to spread the suspicion that Lindemann had sexual contact with women whom he knew were not completely clear at the time.
Mass prejudice
In response, Rammstein published a statement on social media on Thursday. For example, the statement is called “an example of recent, completely out of control reporting” about MeToo. Lindemann’s lawyers also believe that the reporting of The Mirror has led to ‘massive prejudice’ that would go beyond ‘the principle of innocence until proven guilty’.
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Numbers changed
Despite the allegations, Rammstein has just been performing in recent times. On Tuesday, during the last show of Rammstein’s concert series, Lindemann changed some songs. He was referring to the allegations. In the number Ohne Dich Lindemann did not sing ‘Und die Vögel singen nicht mehr’ on Tuesday, but ‘Und die Sänger vögeln nicht mehr’, which means something like ‘The singer has no more sex’.
Also in the number Fear Lindemann adjusted something. Instead of ‘Alle haben Angst Vorm schwarzen Mann’ he sang ‘Alle haben Angst vor Lindemann’, or ‘Everyone is afraid of Lindemann’.