German prosecutor's office asked to review Lindemann's music video for incitement of hatred

23.06.2021, Berlin.

A petition was filed on June 21 to the German prosecutor’s office requesting to review whether the music video of Rammstein rock band leader Till Lindemann and director Serghey Grey violated German law. A copy of the petition is available to Rossa Primavera News Agency editorial office.

The petition to the Prosecutor’s Office asks to review whether the “Ich hasse Kinder” (I Hate Children) video clip violates German law which prohibits demonstrating violence, producing and disseminating instructions for committing violence, as well as inciting hatred against certain groups of people. The petitioner asks for clarification of a number of issues relating to the video clip.

First, whether the said video clip is a punishable display of violence or a work of art that cannot be punished by law. Secondly, whether the individual footage can be regarded as an instruction to carry out murder or inflict dangerous injury.

In addition, the prosecutor’s office will have to examine whether the video clip shows immoral and repulsive behavior or whether the video clip shows moral and exemplary behavior that can be used for educational purposes. The petition also asks to examine whether the artists showing violent acts have the charachteristics of a particular national or ethnic group that might recognize themselves or be recognized by another such group.

Not least is the question of whether the publication and distribution of the video clip might serve to incite hatred against the immorally represented group with ethnic or national characteristics (if any). The petitioner requests to verify whether all of these circumstances do not constitute a general defamation of a group of German citizens of Russian origin, late immigrants (Russian Germans), as well as citizens of the Russian Federation living in Germany with the aim of inciting hatred against this group of citizens.

In a separate paragraph, the Prosecutor’s Office has been asked to examine whether these circumstances are not in general a guide to murder or infliction of grievous bodily harm. The statement ends with a question about the inadmissibility of the dissemination of the lyrics without age restrictions and a request to check whether the lyrics of the song reveal any incitement to hatred against children and/or against another age group.

On June 1, on Children’s Day, Russian director Serghey Grey publishe a music video titled “Ich hasse Kinder.” The leader of the German rock band Rammstein Till Lindemann played The main role in the video. An unpretentious plot of the video clip talks about a boy, who is regularly bullied by other children and bloody acts of his revenge on his offenders in an adult age. The lyrics do not match the video and tell the story of an annoyed airplane passenger who has to spend a flight next to a child, and he hates all children except his own.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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