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Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters says Berlin gig controversy a ‘smear’

Roger Waters attends the 76th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy in 2019 [File: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters]

Pink Floyd’s frontman Roger Waters said he opposes “fascism” in all its forms following a furore in Germany where the rockstar’s donning of a Nazi-style uniform at a Berlin concert sparked a police investigation.

Berlin police said on Friday they were probing Waters after images of the Pink Floyd co-founder circulated on social media, showing him on stage last week at the Mercedes-Benz arena wearing a long, black coat with red armbands and firing an imitation World War II sub-machine gun.

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