Pink Floyd co-founder rejects accusations before his Sunday night concert in former Nazi site
The concert is taking place in the city’s Festhalle, where in November 1938 more than 3,000 Jews were rounded up by the Nazis, beaten and abused, and later deported to concentration camps.
Elio Adler, the head of the Jewish group WerteInitiative, which supports the protest, said “it’s very frustrating” that the concert is going ahead as scheduled even though Frankfurt officials and many others tried to prevent it. Images on social media showed Waters firing an imitation machine gun while dressed in a long black coat with a red armband. Police confirmed that an investigation was opened over suspicions that the context of the costume could constitute a glorification, justification or approval of Nazi rule and therefore a disturbance of the public peace.
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