(ANSA-AFP) - WARSAW, MAR 31 - In his Warsaw apartment
decorated with occult imagery, heavy metal star Adam Darski from
the band Behemoth told AFP he has had enough of being prosecuted
under Poland's anti-blasphemy law. The artist, better known as
"Nergal" -- the name of an ancient Babylonian demon, has
launched a crowdfunding campaign to fight multiple cases against
him and to help others do the same. "I am sounding the alarm,"
the heavily-tattooed 43-year-old, dressed entirely in black,
said in an interview. A Polish court last month ordered Darski
to pay a fine for posting a photo of himself stamping on an
image of the Virgin Mary. It was the sixth criminal case against
him. He has previously been taken to court for tearing up a
Bible on stage and making crude comments about Poland's powerful
Catholic Church. "In 1989, we put an end to a totalitarian
communist regime. Now, a short time later, we have a new
religious nationalist regime. "I just want to create. Let me
create! It's terrible if an artist needs to question himself or
consult a lawyer every time he wants to say something, record
something, express himself." (ANSA-AFP).
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