Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Pete Doherty arrested by German police

Pete Doherty arrested during band
Pete Doherty was arrested during his band's Germany tour for throwing a glass at a car's rear windscreen, it has emerged.

The Babyshambles frontman was held for three hours and charged with property damage after the incident in the early hours of the morning outside a bar in Berlin.

The 30-year-old faces a fine and damages for smashing the parked car's windscreen.

Doherty's arrest outside Trinkteufel, in the Kreuzberg area of Germany, comes after he was booed for singing a Nazi anthem.

The singer-songwriter apologised after inadvertently singing a version of the German national anthem with Nazi connotations at a Munich festival.

He was asked to leave the stage at the on3 music festival after singing the first verse of Das Deutschlandlied, which begins 'Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles'.

The stanza, which translates as 'Germany, Germany above all' was a regular fixture of Nazi gatherings and was abandoned after the second world war.

Doherty was roundly booed by the Munich crowd after singing the verse and started another song, completing five further tracks before being ushered from the stage by an organiser.ADNFCR-708-ID-19501206-ADNFCR

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