Liam Gallagher accuses German police of ‘pulling his teeth out’ after infamous Munich brawl

Liam Gallagher has alleged his teeth were “pulled out with pliers” by German police after a 2002 brawl in Munich.
The then Oasis frontman, 45, was arrested for bodily harm, trespassing and material damage, after a fracas between a group of Italian men, his bandmates and entourage in a hotel and nightclub. He was fined $49,000 (£35,000) over the incident, which led to the cancellation of the group’s German tour and left him needing dental treatment after losing his front teeth.
Recalling details of the brawl, Liam tells British newspaper The Guardian he was sitting under a balcony when a man threw a glass table at their heads, sparking a fight as he and other members of the band’s security staff tried to usher them away. The rocker says that in the ensuing melee, he may have kicked a police officer and that he believes that after his arrest his teeth were, “pulled out with pliers by the f**king German police”.
He recalls, “I think they give me a whack over the head in the back of the f**king van and I think they’ve just gone, ‘F**k you, you c**t’, later on. Because they were pulled out completely perfect. They were going: ‘Oh, as you were coming up the stairs, you tripped and they whacked on there.’ But they’d have broken, wouldn’t they? You don’t f**king have them completely fall out like that.”
Outlining why he doesn’t think the police’s account of the incident adds up, he says he had no other injuries and explains, “If I was to hit you in the mouth, you’d think you’d have a fat lip, right? I didn’t have a fat lip.”
Liam was arrested along with then Oasis drummer Alan White, and the band’s DJ Phil Smith over the incident. His brother and bandmate Noel was reportedly asleep in his hotel room at the time of the fight.
After the arrests prosecutors said the Some Might Say singer had consumed alcohol and drugs and that one officer, “was kicked in the chest with full force by Liam Gallagher… and suffered minor injuries”.
Oasis split up in 2009 after a backstage alercation between Liam and Noel before a gig in Paris, France.