A video shows Melanie Müller surrounded by fans shouting "Sieg Heil", now a second clip appears in which she herself shows the Hitler salute. The police are investigating. Meanwhile, the Ballermann singer asserts that she has nothing to do with right-wing extremists and tries to explain.
It was only on Tuesday that Melanie Müller declared via Instagram that she did not want to perform tonight in Dresden due to a recently published video, when the next compromising clip appeared. At first, only fans of the Ballermann singer could be seen, who showed the Hitler salute and shouted "Sieg Heil", it is now she herself who stretches her right arm several times.
The investigative authorities are now also interested in the material: "We are aware of the new video, which is why we have expanded our investigations," said a spokeswoman for the Leipzig state police on Wednesday evening. "It's about the allegation of using signs of unconstitutional organizations under paragraph 86a of the Criminal Code." Such characteristics can be flags, badges, pieces of uniform, slogans and forms of greeting.
The 16-second video, which is said to have been sent directly to the "Bild" newspaper, shows the ex-jungle queen standing on stage in front of the alleged right-wing extremists. First she still has the microphone in her right hand, then she voices a battle cry from the Leipzig football scene with "Ost, Ost, Ostdeutschland", the newspaper reads. Finally, Müller takes the microphone in his left hand while continuing to chant with the fans. The 34-year-old is said to have raised her outstretched right arm in a Nazi salute a total of eight times.
It was initially said that the party at which the first video was made was a private birthday party, but it is now apparently clear that it took place in a bar where the rocker club "Rowdys Eastside" is at home. The "Bild" newspaper quotes a spokeswoman for the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution: "We know that individuals from the Leipzig right-wing extremist hooligan scene maintain contacts there."
She has "nothing to do with right-wing radicals or nationalist ideas," Müller asserted in a statement on Instagram in the evening. And she was "physically and mentally hit hard" by the claim that she was in a right-wing extremist environment. The singer tried to explain her gestures to the "Bild" newspaper in the evening as follows: "I've been on stage for eleven years and always make these hand movements. Not from a right-wing extremist background, but 'Zicke zacke zicke zacke', so exactly like that how I do it there".
In fact, during her performances, Müller calls out the well-known carnival and sportsman battle cry "Zicke zacke zicke zacke hoi hoi hoi". According to the observations of the "Bild" newspaper, but usually without a misleading arm movement. Instead, she usually holds her microphone in the audience, writes the paper.
Müller's partner Andreas Kunz already commented on the allegations on Tuesday: "Depending on the perspective from which a video or photo is made, it can of course quickly look as if it were the Hitler salute when the crowd is heating up. That's even Angela Merkel happened."
However, Kunze should not be a blank slate in the neo-Nazi scene either. According to RTL research, he has "a wide-ranging company network. Some of these can be assigned to very shady companies. For example the Asgaard security company, which has repeatedly attracted attention in right-wing extremist activities". He and Müller also visit the SinCity BoxGym, "which we know belongs to the extreme right-wing scene in Leipzig. Anyone who associates with such people is deeply rooted in this scene," RTL continues. But Müller doesn't want to know anything about it, at least not as precisely: "I'm not organized on the right – I don't know, I have no idea, was I ever?" She told the "Bild" newspaper.
