FRANKFURT, Germany — German police shut down a far-right rock concert in a small eastern town after members in the crowd started chanting the illegal Nazi slogan “Sieg Heil.”
The concert, which took place in Ostritz in the state of Saxony on Saturday, featured two bands from “the right-wing scene” and had drawn an audience of “several hundred,” Goerlitz police say in a statement.
Officers stationed outside intervened after hearing shouts of “Sieg Heil” (Hail Victory) coming from the venue at 11:20 p.m. local time. The gig was brought to an end and the building was emptied shortly after 1:00 a.m.
Several witnesses also reported hearing the chants.
Federal authorities have opened an investigation, Goerlitz police add.
Under German law, using Nazi-era slogans or publicly displaying swastikas and other Nazi symbols is illegal.
The town of Ostritz, near the border with Poland, regularly hosts far-right concerts that are often controversial.
Last April, hundreds of neo-Nazis gathered in the remote town for a festival timed to coincide with Hitler’s birthday.
— AFP
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