A 16-year-old internet user named Gabi Reis claimed to have been physically assaulted by a man during the System of a Down at Allianz Parque last Saturday, May 10th. The young woman posted a video making "an appeal for justice."
TikTok account , Gabi had been at the venue since 7 AM with her sister, Bele Reis Rammstein started playing [transcription via Wikimetal ].
“There was a guy next to us, right there by the barrier, in the middle of the crowd. And this guy was already very drunk, he was drinking a lot, like, a lot, a lot. He was completely out of it […] And Rammstein, a German band, started playing. And the guy just started making Nazi salutes right there in the middle of it. […] They saw that a girl was recording and started telling him to stop. And he stopped.”
Young man reports assault
Next, Gabi recounts that the situation worsened when the show started: “But the problem was that when the show actually started, everyone wanted to be near the barrier. There's nothing you can do. Everyone pushes each other and stays close together. And in that pushing, I ended up super close to him, and he was with his wife in front of him, and then he started pushing me, but it wasn't pushing to try and find space, he was pushing me on purpose, he was pushing me hard.”.
Gabi claims she tried to reason with the man, explaining that there wasn't much room to move aside and make more space for him, and from that moment on, an argument began, resulting in physical aggression: “He started yelling in my face, pointing at my face. He stopped pushing me and started elbowing me repeatedly in the arm. And giving me a really strong elbow strike. I was saying, 'Sir, there's no way I can move aside.' He knew I was underage, I'm 16 years old. Before the show started, he asked me how old I was.”.
At that moment, Sister Bele Reis intervened, pulling Gabi back and starting to argue with the man. Gabi then began to cry and said that the people around were witnessing the commotion: "The people who were there saw what happened, saw that he was hitting me on purpose, that it wasn't a matter of space, it was a matter of him wanting to, I don't know, he wanted to hit me."
Security at the show did nothing
The young woman claims that her sister's boyfriend told them to call a security guard or someone from the organization: “He told us to call one of the guards […] And they didn't do anything, we called, a lot of people pointing at who the guy was, because a lot of people saw what he did. We were saying, 'it's this guy here, it's this guy here,' and nobody was doing anything.”.
Gabi reported crying a lot, and at that moment, the firefighters allegedly removed the young woman from the scene and took her to the infirmary. Then, they reportedly instructed her to return to the show via a different route than the one she had been in – which was near the stage
“When I went back, they wouldn’t let me return the same way. We were super close to the barrier, there must have been about five people in front of us, and they wouldn’t let me go back the way I came out. And I was alone, there was nobody there. And I was saying, ‘Sir, please, let me go back, is there no way I can go back that way?’ He said, ‘No, you can’t go back that way.’ I had to go through the middle of the audience, through the middle of everyone, everyone together there in the middle, I had to squeeze through there.”.
Video of man making Nazi salute is released
The young woman felt wronged and said: “The guy kept enjoying his show, ruining my show, my sister's, and my brother-in-law's. What I thought would cause problems was during the mosh pit, something like that, but that part didn't cause any problems. It was this guy who picked on me.”.
Finally, Gabi reports that another fan recorded the moment when the man made the Nazi salute, and also shared the video on TikTok : “We found out that a girl who was near us recorded the guy. So we have his face […] What irritates me the most is that the organization did nothing to remove the guy from there. He could have continued watching his show without anyone bothering him. And I missed about three songs because they wouldn't let me go straight back, because I was feeling unwell.”
Gabi's sister also posted a video on the same social network giving details of what happened and asking internet users for help in identifying the man.
Watch the video below:
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