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A group of men attacked fans at a Radiohead listening party Friday in Istanbul, apparently angry the fans were drinking during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Amateur video -- reported to have been live-streamed on Periscope -- appears to have captured the incident. In the video, the unidentified attackers enter the store shouting "close it, close it down" aggressively as attendees were listening to Radiohead's newly launched album "A Moon Shaped Pool."
The video shows the assailants, thought to be from the neighborhood, roughly removing one person from the store. After a few moments of yelling outside the shop, one of the attackers in a white shirt is seen returning and shouting at the remaining handful of people to get out of the store.
He knocks over a beer can and then, still shouting, flings a stool outside. Continuing to curse, he yells, "Are you not ashamed doing this in Ramadan?" The lights of the store are turned off and voices can be heard in the street shouting, "I'll kill you" and "I will burn you alive inside."
That last part harkens back to one of Turkey's deadliest attacks, in which 35 intellectuals were burned alive by an Islamist mob in 1993.
Amateur video -- reported to have been live-streamed on Periscope -- appears to have captured the incident. In the video, the unidentified attackers enter the store shouting "close it, close it down" aggressively as attendees were listening to Radiohead's newly launched album "A Moon Shaped Pool."
The video shows the assailants, thought to be from the neighborhood, roughly removing one person from the store. After a few moments of yelling outside the shop, one of the attackers in a white shirt is seen returning and shouting at the remaining handful of people to get out of the store.
He knocks over a beer can and then, still shouting, flings a stool outside. Continuing to curse, he yells, "Are you not ashamed doing this in Ramadan?" The lights of the store are turned off and voices can be heard in the street shouting, "I'll kill you" and "I will burn you alive inside."
That last part harkens back to one of Turkey's deadliest attacks, in which 35 intellectuals were burned alive by an Islamist mob in 1993.