2023-05-29 02:32:15
Frankfurt – Howling cramps and crude conspiracy theories!
“Pink Floyd” founder Roger Waters played his scandalous show in Frankfurt’s Festhalle on Sunday. Bizarre: When the world star spoke about the anti-Semitism allegations against him in the middle of the concert, he started to cry.
“Anyone who has followed the press in recent days will get the impression that I am an anti-Semite,” said Waters. Then he yelled into the microphone, “That’s NOT me. I am not! I am not”. Suddenly, the tears flowed from the world star in front of a sold-out hall. He slumped for about half a minute. Then he asked for handkerchiefs.
After a handkerchief break, the concert continued
►Background: At his concert in Berlin last week, Waters appeared on stage in a Nazi outfit, among other things. Therefore, the police are now investigating on suspicion of incitement to hatred.
The Berlin appearance even caused outrage in Israel. The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the musician of having “dirtyed the memory of Anne Frank and the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust” in Berlin of all places with insertions on a video screen.
Troubled mood
►The mood in Frankfurt was turbulent right from the start: Only five minutes after the start of the concert, a man climbed the stage secured by several security guards and waved an Israel flag. Others stood up to wave the flags they had brought with them. Waters fans snatched them away, and a fight broke out in a visitor block. Security guards violently threw a flag waver with an older escort out of the festival hall.
An Israel flag is displayed in the audience
In addition, crude conspiracy theories appeared on the Festhallen monitor and were posted on Twitter: The Supreme Court (the Supreme Court of the United States, ed.) is the legal wing of Christian nationalists, one must arm oneself against it. However, Waters refrained from appearing in Nazi uniform.
For this he let his notorious pig fly through the hall again. In 2011 he had provided it with a Jewish star at a Berlin appearance – it now flew through the Festhalle with the imprint of the Israeli armaments company “Elbit Systems”. Waters, who announced 30 minutes beforehand that he was not an anti-Semite, carried it a Palestine cloth.
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The performance in front of the concert hall was secured by a hundred police officers.
At a demonstration by the Jewish community in Frankfurt, which took place shortly before the scandal show, Frankfurt Mayor Mike Josef (40, SPD) said: “A person who says that American politics is controlled by rich Jews, the balloons in pig form with a Star of David and shoots them down, we don’t want someone like that in this town.”
But he was there, it was a disaster.
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