mollie
September 20th, 2009, 09:02 PM
I was so sure we had this one but now I can't find it.
Stalkers Deserve Fair Punishment!
Tokio-Bill: Fair Punishment for the Stalker
Fame has it’s dark sides. The boys from Tokio Hotel had to find this out themselves after their meteoric rise in 2005. A group of female stalkers had, at the beginning of this year, hunted the Magdeburg band. The fact that they will never again be the insignificant boys next door, Bill (20) Tom (20), Georg (22) and Gustav (20) have resigned themselves to- meanwhile they still want justice. “We hope that the people get a fair punishment for it”, frontman Bill Kaulitz says during the MSN STARLOUNGE interview.
The stalker stress was also the background for an incident in a Hamburg filling station at the beginning of April this year, when Bill’s twin brother Tom Kaulitz clashed with a young woman. The situation escalated soon after members of the family of the Kaulitz twins were violently attacked. As a result, in April 2009, the band pressed charges against their pursuers.
During the interview with STARLOUNGE Bill remembers the “crazy time”. “The worst part for us was that our private life, or actually… we have no private life… the worst was, actually, with our families and our friends… We ourselves can handle it better. We decided to lead this life in public. But we wanted to preserve those of our families and friends”, says Bill.
The chances are good that the culprits will be held accountable for their behavior, because stalking (obsessive pursuing) is a criminal offense. In Germany you can go to jail for up to three years. The boys still consider the fact that they could again become the targets of obsessive love.
“I believe, this can continue to happen. You can never be sure about it. But naturally, we try to simply move on. It is clear, you can’t let it bring you down. But naturally these are bad things that can happen over and over again. I believe, it’s just something that comes with success, unfortunately,” Bill added further.
Translation thanks to th_cult on LiveJournal.
Source: http://starlounge.at.msn.com/index.cfm?objectid=62360
Stalkers Deserve Fair Punishment!
Tokio-Bill: Fair Punishment for the Stalker
Fame has it’s dark sides. The boys from Tokio Hotel had to find this out themselves after their meteoric rise in 2005. A group of female stalkers had, at the beginning of this year, hunted the Magdeburg band. The fact that they will never again be the insignificant boys next door, Bill (20) Tom (20), Georg (22) and Gustav (20) have resigned themselves to- meanwhile they still want justice. “We hope that the people get a fair punishment for it”, frontman Bill Kaulitz says during the MSN STARLOUNGE interview.
The stalker stress was also the background for an incident in a Hamburg filling station at the beginning of April this year, when Bill’s twin brother Tom Kaulitz clashed with a young woman. The situation escalated soon after members of the family of the Kaulitz twins were violently attacked. As a result, in April 2009, the band pressed charges against their pursuers.
During the interview with STARLOUNGE Bill remembers the “crazy time”. “The worst part for us was that our private life, or actually… we have no private life… the worst was, actually, with our families and our friends… We ourselves can handle it better. We decided to lead this life in public. But we wanted to preserve those of our families and friends”, says Bill.
The chances are good that the culprits will be held accountable for their behavior, because stalking (obsessive pursuing) is a criminal offense. In Germany you can go to jail for up to three years. The boys still consider the fact that they could again become the targets of obsessive love.
“I believe, this can continue to happen. You can never be sure about it. But naturally, we try to simply move on. It is clear, you can’t let it bring you down. But naturally these are bad things that can happen over and over again. I believe, it’s just something that comes with success, unfortunately,” Bill added further.
Translation thanks to th_cult on LiveJournal.
Source: http://starlounge.at.msn.com/index.cfm?objectid=62360