The organizers of the Oktoberfest festival have announced a ban on the song ‘L’amour tojours’, by the Italian DJ Gigi D’Agostino, after a video gained prominence last week in which a group of young German ultras chanted xenophobic and racist slogans to the rhythm of said song.

“We want to ban it and I will ban it. There is no place for all that right-wing garbage in the Wiesn“, said the head of the Munich Beer Festival, Clemens Baumgärtner, in statements to the German news agency DPA.

Although Baumgärtner has acknowledged that the song itself cannot be considered extreme right, the Oktoberfest organizer has highlighted that it has taken on “a clear far-right connotation” after the latest events.

Thus, he highlighted that the festival is “apolitical” and a “beautiful and joyful” celebration that welcomes thousands of guests from all over the world. Oktoberfest reserves the right to prohibit far-right slogans and content, and has now accepted this.

The controversy arose last week after a video circulated on social networks in which a group of young people chant xenophobic and racist slogans outside a bar on the exclusive island of Sylt, such as “Foreigners out!” and “German for the Germans”to the rhythm of the aforementioned melody.

Several German leaders, including Chancellor Olaf Scholz himself, came forward to publicly condemn events that labeled as “unacceptable.” “We cannot tolerate it,” said the president, who already announced that the Executive is working to prevent this type of behavior from “spreading” in society.

In the recording, which lasted just a few seconds and was widely shared on social networks, young men and women They shout racist slogans while laughing. A man apparently imitates the mustache of Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi regime, with his fingers.

The Police have already confirmed that they are investigating whether this video may constitute some type of crime. Not in vain, German legislation prohibits not only incitement to hatred but also expressly prohibits the use of Nazi slogans or symbols.

Those responsible for the bar next to which the images were recorded have distanced themselves from its content, “deeply shocked”. “If we had been aware of the incident, we would have expelled the customers in question. There is no place for racism,” they declared.