discus event of Radiohead attacked in Turkey – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

A group of men attacked Friday night an event to launch the latest album of Radiohead The Moon Shaped Pool. The attack occurred in a small music store in Istanbul, Turkey, and, according to Dogan agency, there are at least two wounded, having been open a police investigation. According to several reports placed on social networks and cited by the Brazilian edition of the journal Rolling Stone , the group of about 20 men was angry “because of the sale of alcoholic beverages on site, a day of Ramadan” .

the band has responded through its producer. “Our hearts are with those who were attacked tonight at Velvet IndieGround in Istanbul. We hope one day we will be able to look back to these violent acts of intolerance and think they are things of the past. For now, we can only offer our fans in Istanbul our love and support, “reads the message released in several sites music.

a video on YouTube , with just over four minutes, shows a group of men to come screaming in the store Velvet IndieGround , where they lived a relaxed, forcing everyone to leave. They are heard the shouts of the attackers and glasses from, but the camera placed inside the store does not report the assaults that have occurred outside. “We got more than 20 men with pipes in their hands,” says one of the victims, cited by Rolling Stone . “Beer bottles were broken in our heads, I do not know how we got out. Will share more details later, just hope that no one has died, “blurted the same person.

According to information published in the party event on Facebook, the attack took place between 21h and 22h local ( two more hours than in Portugal). “Between 20 and 25 men began suddenly to beat guests, some were inside and others outside the record store Velvet IndieGround, drinking beer and other beverages,” wrote someone else on Facebook. N will be there to date confirmation of any serious injured, although photos posted on Twitter show people bleeding.

However, it has been called a protest to be held tonight before the record store, located in a cosmopolitan district of central Istanbul, Tophane, where in the past there have already been similar attacks on art galleries.

updated News at 13h44 with about information the status of victims of the attack