Over 500,000 tickets, sold for the show of a neo-Sonazist singer. The largest pay -off concert ever organized in the world
Considered a legend of Croatian music, singer Thompson, known for his neonazist sympathies and fascist greetings during his concerts, sold over 500,000 tickets for his next show, scheduled in July in Zagreb.
It happens after Thompson, whose real name is Marko Perkovic, has been prevented from holding concerts in several European countries due to his open support for the Ustaşa regime, installed by Hitler and Mussolini in the leadership of Croatia in 1941, AFP informs.
“Saturday, July 5, over half a million people will take advantage of the show on the Hippodrome in Zagreb”wrote on Facebook the representatives of ENTRIO, a platform dedicated to ticket sales, on Thursday night to Friday.
According to Entrio, this will be the largest payment concert ever organized in the world.
Nazi greeting often made during shows
The ugly, which Thompson admires publicly, persecuted and killed hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Croatians and Roma in Croatian concentration camps during World War II.
Eblems of this fascist regime can often be encountered in the scenic productions of singer Thompson, during which the fans and he himself make the Nazi greeting, with the outstretched arm, when the artist begins to interpret his best song, “”Bojna Cavoglave ”whose lyrics start with the phrase used by the members of the Ustaşa regime to greet each other.
“There is nothing controversial” In this song, said the Croatian singer, who became famous during the 1990s war.
Thompson, during a concert. Photo Capture YouTube Bojna Cavoglave
Accused of glorifying genocide
Thompson was accused of the Simon Wiesenthal center of glorification of genocide in the texts of his song “No coincidence, no error.”
Croatia's pronazistic past has become a topic that is less regarded as a taboo in the last years, and the use of Ustaşa symbols is not sanctioned.
The largest reunion organized on the Hippodrome in Zagreb took place in 1994, when the former Pope John Paul II officiated a religious service.
In January 2025, the British band Coldplay set the record for the largest concert organized on a stadium with paying fans, attended by 223,000 spectators. Madonna has from 2024 the record for the largest free concert in the world, organized on the Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, with 1.6 million spectators.
