“Young women must be better protected against attacks,” German Family Minister Lisa Paus told AFP, while Rammstein, one of Europe’s best-known metal groups, toured the continent.
The minister proposes the creation of protection zones for women at concerts, as well as teams that can intervene in the event of sexual assault.
It is necessary to discuss “quickly and concretely” about protection measures, highlights Paus, for whom “a serious debate on the responsibility of artists and organizers with respect to their fans would be useful.”
The band’s singer, Till Lindemann, was accused by several women of sexual assault, the NDR network and the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported in recent days.
He is suspected of choosing young people from the front rows of the group’s concerts and inviting them to after parties. Two of these women claim to have undergone non-consensual sexual acts after being drugged during these events, which the group denies.
Another investigation, carried out by the weekly Die Welt, describes a true system at the service of the singer, in which the women present in the front row are filmed or photographed so that Lindemann, 60, can make her choice.
In the Olympic stadium in Munich there are four concerts scheduled this week. The area just in front of the scene (“Zero Row”) -in which the singer could see the young women- will be eliminated.