BERLIN, Aug 29 Berlin prosecutors drop investigation against frontman Rammstein band Till Lindemann on charges of violence against women, according to Bild, citing its own sources.
«In June it became known that the Berlin police and the prosecutor's office brought several criminal charges against the singer. However, the appeals (on their initiation) were filed not by the alleged victims, but by outside third parties,» the newspaper writes.
According to Bild, the Berlin prosecutor's office has closed the last of the previously initiated investigations on suspicion of committing crimes against sexual integrity by the frontman.
The publication notes that back in June, the musician's defense stated after studying the charges that no objective evidence in favor of Lindemann's crimes had been presented.
Lindemann and his band have been at the center of controversy in recent months over allegations made by several girls against the frontman. It all started after a fan of the band, Shelby Lynn, accused Lindemann of putting drugs in her drink before a Rammstein concert in Vilnius.
After this incident, a number of women anonymously approached the radio station NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung, making serious accusations against the band's frontman and later keyboardist Christian Lorenz. Similar accusations against Lindemann were later made by a girl from Austria.
Lindemann himself hired lawyers who expressed their readiness to prove the client's innocence in court. The lawyers, in turn, hired experts in the field of forensic medicine who, based on photographs circulated on social networks of Lynn, where she showed bruises on her body, determined that these bruises were most likely the result of an accident, and not violence on someone's part.