Aurora

Following an Aurora show at Lollapalooza Brazil, some social-media users and an NGO interpreted a hand gesture by drummer Sigmund Vestrheim as a white-supremacist sign and pointed to older posts. Vestrheim denied supporting Nazism and Aurora publicly defended him. He was replaced for some Mexico shows amid safety concerns; the allegations against him do not establish wrongdoing by Aurora.

State of the evidence

Reported video, social-media posts and statements from the singer and drummer.

Legal status — source text

No personal charges against Aurora identified; disputed public claims focused on a band member.

Attribution

Publicly defending a colleague accused by social-media users and an NGO.

Person targeted by the proceedings

Sigmund Vestrheim

Role of the person profiled

Protagonist not prosecuted

Aurora went ahead with two Tel Aviv concerts despite calls for a cultural boycott. Her manager confirmed that the dates had deliberately been omitted from her official online schedule to avoid enquiries and controversy. Israeli and Palestinian artists and Norwegian campaigners criticised the decision; no court findings concerned the concert bookings.

State of the evidence

Management statements, the singer’s response and boycott appeals reported by news outlets.

Legal status — source text

Cultural and political controversy with no identified court proceedings.

Attribution

Holding the concerts and deliberately leaving the dates off the public itinerary.