The Rammstein group splits after the accusations of sexual assault against Till Lindemann

The drummer of Rammstein admitted on Friday that "things" that he did not find "personally correct" had "happened" around the singer of the German group, accused by several women of sexual assault. "I don't think anything forbidden happened, or at least I didn't notice," Christoph Schneider explained in a message, titled "My personal thoughts and feelings on the current situation. “, published Friday on Instagram. “However, things have happened (…) that I personally do not find correct,” he adds. "The accusations of the last few weeks have deeply shocked us, us as a group and me as a man," says Christoph Schneider.

Till Lindemann, 60, is accused by several women of sexual abuse at backstage parties after the group's concerts. What the singer denied through his lawyers. The Berlin public prosecutor's office opened an investigation on Wednesday. “In recent years, Till has moved away from us and created his own bubble. With its own people, its own projects, its own parties. It made me sad, it's true”, regrets the drummer.

This is the first time that one of the six members of the metal rock band has spoken publicly since the start of the case at the end of May. It was a 24-year-old Irish woman claiming that Till Lindemann drugged and sexually assaulted her after a concert in Lithuania who brought the first charges. A wave of accusations targeting the singer of the German-speaking group that sold the most albums in the world followed, drawing the outlines of a real system of sexual predation targeting groupies after concerts.

These would have been spotted in the front rows of the concerts, filmed or photographed so that Lindemann could make his choice, before being invited backstage for parties. Some would then have been drugged before being attacked by the singer.

While the group is in the middle of a European tour, calls for a boycott are multiplying and after-concert parties have been banned during a series of dates in Munich. Berlin made the same decision for the Rammstein concerts scheduled for July in the capital.

Universal Music announced on Thursday that it has suspended the group's marketing and promotional activities.