Xavier Naidoo, 48, has sparked plenty of controversy in the past with idealistic and right-wing populist lyrics. Last Monday (March 9th) he published a video in which he allegedly sings racist lines. Now a scandalous video appeared again: The singer talks about the fact that the climate crisis is just a "hysteria" that was invented.
Xavier Naidoo seems to think the climate crisis is an illusion
After the first viral video, not only did his "closest sons" distant him from the "Sons of Mannheim", but he was also kicked out of the DSDS jury. Finally, a criminal complaint followed on suspicion of sedition. Now another compromising video came to the surface, in which the 48-year-old accounts for the climate crisis.
He begins the recording with the words "Today is September 20th, a so-called 'Friday For Future'". The "out of this world" interpreter has a theory of his own to describe this global climate strike: "FFF. Three times F. F is in sixth place in the alphabet. (…) 666. You know who is behind it. " Xavier Naidoo means the biblical number that stands for the Antichrist. Since he often described himself as a believer in the past, might the climate crisis seem like a work of the devil to him?
He calls experts liars
In the further course of the video, the "This Way" interpreter announces that he owns several cars and none of them "would (would) ever be scrapped due to a climate hysteria that has no chance in court." In this context, he calls climate researcher Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, 69, and the astrophysicist and natural philosopher Harald Lesch, 59, as a liar: "You are a liar and you remain a liar." Naidoo also promises that "they will definitely still be heard from me."
He apparently wants to sit down with the experts: "I think I might be able to get Oliver Janich and I to have a little debate, a discussion with them and argue in the spirit of the good cause. May the better one win with the facts. " Oliver Janich, 51, is an author who has earned the reputation of a xenophobic conspiracy theorist among critics.
Sources used: Twitter, Wikipedia
This article originally appeared on Gala.de.