There will be no prosecution against the Rammstein singer. The Berlin public prosecutor’s office announced on Tuesday that it was ending the investigation it had opened in mid-June against 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 accused had non-consensual sexual relations with women”, writes the Berlin prosecutor’s office, about the singer German-speaking group having sold the most albums in the world.
Several charges
The case began at the end of May with the testimony of a 24-year-old Irish woman accusing the singer and lyricist of the group of having drugged and sexually assaulted her after a concert the same month in Lithuania. Other young women then testified, all describing more or less the same scenario.
The groupies would have been spotted in the front rows of the concerts, filmed or photographed so that Lindemann could make his choice, before for some of them being invited backstage for parties. Some would then have been drugged before being attacked by the singer, currently 60 years old, who denied through his lawyers.