The Oldenburg Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged two youths with incitement to hatred who wrote racist lyrics to the party song Love always probably sung by Gigi D’Agostino. On May 20th they will participate in the shooting festival in Löningen-Bunnen in Lower Saxony. Lower Saxony
A spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said they chanted the slogan “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out” to the melody of the song.
The Public Prosecution Service has closed the investigation into three other suspects. The Public Prosecution Service also said that it could not be proven with the certainty required for a charge that they had also shouted inflammatory slogans.
The two defendants must now answer to the juvenile judge of the Cloppenburg court, on condition that the court approves the charges and the main proceedings are opened. Negotiations against young people usually take place behind closed doors.
Numerous cases have been reported nationwide
The case became widely known thanks to excerpts from the case
singing were captured in a video and shared on social media. The reporting about this received national attention. Witnesses reported the incident to the police. The club management had distanced itself from the chants and announced that something would be done about it.
The incident became known at the shooting festival in Löningen-Bunnen, just a few days after a similar incident in a posh bar on the island of Sylt. There, young people sang the same lines during a celebration on the Pentecost weekend. The state police then investigated
inflammatory on.
In the weeks that followed, more incidents involving the racist slogan were reported. According to a report published about a week ago by the editorial network Germany, police were alerted more than 360 times nationwide. Organizers of major events such as Munich’s Oktoberfest announced that they would no longer play the song.
The Oldenburg Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged two youths with incitement to hatred who wrote racist lyrics to the party song Love always probably sung by Gigi D’Agostino. On May 20th they will participate in the shooting festival in Löningen-Bunnen in Lower Saxony. Lower Saxony
A spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said they chanted the slogan “Germany for the Germans, foreigners out” to the melody of the song.
The Public Prosecution Service has closed the investigation into three other suspects. The Public Prosecution Service also said that it could not be proven with the certainty required for a charge that they had also shouted inflammatory slogans.