The lead singer of the official band for the Danish neo-Nazi political party has been expelled from the group and asked to commit suicide after he was accused of pedophilia.
Carsten Ovesen, the frontman of the band Daneskjold, allegedly had an ongoing inappropriate relationship with a friend's 12-year-old daughter.
"It turns out that Carsten has repeatedly been visited by the 12-year-old girl in his apartment in Amager (a suburb of Copenhagen)," Danish National Socialist party chairman Jonni Hansen wrote on the band's website.
"None of us expected to find such a thing in our own ranks, among our own people."
Hansen also told Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet he had personally asked Ovesen to kill himself.
"I said simply to him that I invite him to commit suicide.
"That, I think, is the only real way out of it here," he said.
The three-piece group Daneskjold was disbanded after the allegations emerged, and their website has been replaced by the message from Hansen and a large photograph of Ovesen's face.
Hansen said Daneskjold was a central icon of the Nazi political movement in Denmark,
"It is extra uncomfortable — I've known the man for some years now," he said.
The Danish National Socialist Party is believed to have around 1000 passive and 150 active members.
The party is officially recognised by the Danish government and has contested for seats in some elections without success.
Danish authorities have not commented on whether they are conducting an investigation into the pedophilia claims.
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