According to Interia.pl and GazetaPrawna.pl, vocalist/guitarist Adam "Nergal" Darski of Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH was formally charged on Monday (March 8) for insulting Roman Catholics.
Darskimade headlines in his native country in September 2007 when hereportedly called the Catholic Church "the most murderous cult on theplanet" during a BEHEMOTH performance in Gdynia and tore up a copy of the Bible onstage (see video below).
After the incident, Ryszard Nowak, head of the All-Polish Committee for Defense Against Sects sued BEHEMOTHfor promoting Satanism. Although a court expert witness on religiousmatters said that the act of destroying the Holy Bible could offendsomebody's religious feelings (a criminal offense under Polish law),the case was discontinued because no one except Nowak accused BEHEMOTHof insulting their religious beliefs. (Under Polish law, there must beat least two formal complaints before a charge is laid. The previouscomplaint was made in 2008, and recently an unspecified number of othercomplaints had been filed.)
Nergal is pleading not guilty to the charge.
According to Metal As Fuck, in the first hearing, under cross examination, Darskistated what he does on stage is part of artistic license and it wasn'tsupposed to offend religious feelings. However, an expert on religioushistory and studies from Jagellonian University in Krakow stated thatevery copy of a bible could be considered a religious icon.
There was no judgment ruled against Darski in the first hearing, but now that a second complaint has been filed, the matter will be heard by the courts.
If found guilty, Darski faces up to 2 years in prison.
In a 2009 interview with Decibel magazine, BEHEMOTH bassist Tomasz "Orion" Wróblewskiexplained that the Bible-tearing incident was by no means a spontaneousoutburst. "We'd been doing that for two years on tour before ithappened in Poland," he said. "So, we had discussed it many timesbefore. A BEHEMOTH show is a BEHEMOTH show, and BEHEMOTH fans are coming to a BEHEMOTH show. BEHEMOTH fans know what BEHEMOTHis about, know what the lyrics are about, and know at least a little ofthe philosophy behind the band. So, it's kind of surprising that thereare people coming to the shows and feeling offended with what we doonstage. If such a person comes to a show, he comes with the purpose ofbeing offended, I guess, and it shouldn't be like that. We're notoffending any particular person. We're just offending the religion thatwe've been raised in."
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