THE CONFEDERATE flag has been snapped flying over the fence at Glastonbury Festival — just days after major retailers and institutions in the US banned selling and displaying it.

This comes a week after white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof, 21, had opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people.

Mr Roof, who is in custody, is seen in photographs posing with the Confederate flag, which is a divisive symbol due to its links with the American civil war.

He was reported to have told friends that by shooting black people he had wanted to start another similar conflict.

Commentators on social media have stated that taking the Confederate flag to a major music event is insensitive, while others said it may have been done in “irony.”