Spelling error blamed for Rock am Ring disruption
The misspelling of the names of two Syrian workers was the catalyst for the evacuation of Rock am Ring 2017, police have revealed
News By IQ | 15 June 2017
German police have said a spelling mistake was to blame for the disruption of the first day of this year’s Rock am Ring festival.
Johannes Kunz, chief of the Rhineland-Palatinate state police force, says the names of two Syrian nationals working at the festival were misspelt on the list of staff provided to police by promoter Marek Lieberberg Concert Agency (MLK).
At the time, authorities suspected an Islamist terror plot in the state of Hesse, and when the two…
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