German police admitted on Wednesday that they asked organizers to suspend the Rock am Ring festival earlier this month after two misspelled names led them to suspect radical Islamists were working there. The names belonged to two employees of a Frankfurt-based company that had been subcontracted to set up the stages at the festival. The names appear to have been spelled incorrectly on a list of employees handed out to the festival organizers, leading police to suspect that they may have been connected to the Islamist scene. The festival, which has been running since 1985 and is the biggest in Germany, resumed early the next morning. Currently police check the identities of employees of security firms at the events.

Source: The Local June 14, 2017 14:15 UTC