He posted a disclaimer on his social media. “I have spent my whole life speaking out against authoritarianism and oppression,” she said.
Roger Watersco-founder of the English rock band Pink Floydmade a download on their social networks after it emerged that the German Police had opened a investigation against him for incitement to hateafter in a recital given in Berlin on May 17, he wore the famous neo nazi style military suit immortalized in the live concerts of the mythical rock opera “The Wall” in 1979 and in its film version in 1982.
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The Roger Waters Discharge
“My recent performance in Berlin has attracted bad faith attacks of those who they want to defame and silence me because they do not agree with my political views and moral principles”, expresses the first paragraph of the statement posted on his Twitter account.
“The elements of my performance that have been questioned are clearly a statement in opposition to fascism, injustice and intolerance in all its forms. Attempts to portray those elements as something else are disingenuous and politically motivated. The portrayal of a deranged fascist demagogue has been a feature of my shows since Pink Floyd’s The Wall in 1980.”go on.
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“I have spent my whole life speaking out against authoritarianism and oppression wherever I see them”, says the musician in another passage of the letter, in which he also reviews various personal experiences that, he affirms, taught him “what happens when fascism is not controlled”.
How did the investigation against you come about?
The news about the police investigation against the artist 79-year-old began yesterday, and was accompanied by statements by Martin Halweg, spokesperson for the Berlin security forcewho expressed to local media that “the clothes worn on stage (by Waters) are likely to exalt or justify the National Socialist regime and disturb public order. The outfit resembles that of an SS officer.”
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According to the city police, the performances on May 17 and 18 at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin led to the complaint from some spectators outraged by the clothing.
The aforementioned clothing, a black coat and red armband with a prop rifleis part of the iconography created by Waters and illustrator Gerald Scarfe for the launch of “The Wall”a concept album that follows the story of Pink, a fictional rock star who becomes more and more enclosed within imaginary “walls” as a result of his traumas and the lack of humanity of the system.
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The disk and its images alluding to different forms of oppression They were later brought to the big screen by Alan Parker, with Irishman Bob Geldof in the role of Pink. Since then they have defined the live performances of the album, perhaps the most important also held in the German capital in 1990, on the occasion of the fall of the wall that had divided the nation in two during the Cold War.
Source: Ambito
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