Onderschat niet hoe gevoelig dit nog altijd ligt in Duitsland. Hadden ze daar eerder aan moeten denken? Natuurlijk.
Door social media gaan dingen soms een eigen level leiden. Het enige wat je dan nog kan doen is damage control.
In calling for
Rock Am Ring and
Rock Im Park organizers to cancel
PANTERA's appearances at the festivals, the German Green Party said in the Nürnberg city council that
Anselmo "repeatedly and deliberately made Nazi gestures and yelled racist slogans."
Réka Lörincz, the spokeswoman for the Greens against racism and right-wing extremism, added that "the former Nazi party premises" were "being deliberately misused for the staging and reproduction of racist and inhuman ideology." The Green Party asked the organizer,
Argo Konzerte GmbH, to reconsider its invitation to
PANTERA and call off the band's performances at
Rock Am Ring and
Rock Im Park, which are usually regarded as one event with almost identical lineup. It is considered to be the largest annual music festival in Germany and one of the largest in the world.