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Black Rebel fined over eye injury accident
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 11 November 2010
Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has reportedly been fined 18,500 euros and given a three month suspended sentence in Germany after he accidently injured a fan at a gig in Munich back in May.
Been threw a water bottle from the stage across his audience at the gig, seemingly hoping it would land in a bin. But he missed – possibly because he reportedly threw the bottle over his shoulder – and instead the water container hit a 46 year old fan who suffered considerable damage to his eye. To make matters worse, the fan had already undergone a retinal transplant on the same eye when he was younger.
In the German court, Been said that he was very sorry for what had happened and added that he had already offered to cover any and all costs associated with his fan’s injury.
