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Heavy metal star takes on Poland's anti-blasphemy law

Darski launched a crowdfunding campaign

31 March, 13:52
(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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