Rammstein fan Shelby Lynn alleges she was groomed for sex

A pistillate from Northern Ireland has told the BBC she was recruited and "groomed" for enactment with the pb vocalist of the German dense metallic set Rammstein.

Shelby Lynn, who besides claims her portion was spiked astatine a performance successful Vilnius successful May, archetypal made the claims connected societal media.

Her allegations triggered a question of different intersexual misconduct allegations against the band's frontman Till Lindemann.

The set person denied the claims.

A spokesperson for Rammstein told the BBC an interior probe was nether mode with the archetypal results expected aboriginal adjacent week.

The band, good known for its flamboyant shows and arguable lyrics, has been engulfed by ungraded successful caller weeks arsenic a increasing fig of women assertion that they were recruited for enactment during concerts.

Like Ms Lynn, immoderate fishy they were pre-selected connected societal media by a Russian woman, believed to person been a "recruiter" for Mr Lindemann, who invited them to parties earlier and aft the show.

She besides gave them entree to a restricted country straight successful beforehand of the stage, known arsenic "Row Zero".

Ms Lynn, who is 24 and from Ballymena successful County Antrim, told the BBC that erstwhile she arrived astatine the venue a antheral named Joe asked her and different young women to enactment up.

She said: "He started filming... astir 4 girls, including myself. He got precise adjacent to our faces."

She claimed that soon afterwards helium picked her and respective different girls to be a pre-concert party, wherever she was fixed intoxicant and told Till Lindemann would similar to conscionable her during a little intermission erstwhile the performance began.

"I said: 'Why? Why me? Is this immoderate benignant of a enactment thing?' [He replied:] 'No, no, no, thing similar that, thing similar that astatine all. Till's the cleanable gentleman.'"

Ms Lynn said she was ushered into a tiny country underneath the stage.

"As soon arsenic Joe opens the curtains my tummy drops - this is bad, this is simply a enactment happening absolutely.

"This country was nary bigger than a Primark dressing country - similar teeny tiny, acheronian achromatic - you could possibly acceptable 4 oregon 5 radical successful it.

"Till comes successful and I instantly say: 'Till, if you're present for sex. I'm not doing that.'"

The singer, she said, reacted angrily and left.

Ms Lynn, who has emphasised connected societal media she wasn't sexually assaulted, said her representation of the evening was "blurry" and she recalls feeling nauseous and vomiting astatine a enactment aft the concert.

She believes her portion was spiked and that she was the unfortunate of an "organised strategy of funnelling girls".

"I was groomed, 100 percent, nary uncertainty successful my mind. I was groomed for sex," she said.

Rammstein initially reacted to her claims past period by releasing a connection online successful which the set afloat denied them.

On Saturday, aft different women came guardant with allegations, the set published different statement, saying that they took the accusations highly seriously.

They condemned immoderate benignant of battle but asked their fans not to "pre-judge" them.

A spokesperson for the set has subsequently told the BBC that it is present investigating the claims and interviewing unit and unit arsenic portion of the enquiry.

Rammstein is presently performing respective concerts successful Germany.

After demands from respective politicians, including the German families minister, Wednesday's amusement successful Munich went up with nary "Row Zero".

There were specializer "awareness teams" connected manus to assistance anyone successful a susceptible position.

The spokesperson added that the set had severed interaction with the Russian pistillate accused of helping to prime women for "Row Zero".

They said backstage after-show parties with Till Lindemann had been cancelled.