BEHEMOTH’s Nergal Charged For Destroying Bible

It looks like vocalist and guitarist Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski of the Polish metal act BEHEMOTH has gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble. The Behemoth leader was formally charged on March 8, 2010 for insulting Roman Catholics. If found guilty, get this… Darski faces up to two years in prison.

Darski made headlines in Poland in September 2007 when he reportedly called the Catholic Church “the most murderous cult on the planet” during a Behemoth concert in Gdynia where he tore up a copy of the Bible on stage.

After the incident, Ryszard Nowak, head of the All-Polish Committee for Defense Against Sects sued Adam Darski for promoting Satanism.

Quoting the Polish websites Interia.pl and GazetaPrawna.pl, Roadrunner Records writes:

“Although a court expert witness on religious matters said that the act of destroying the Holy Bible could offend somebody’s religious feelings (a criminal offense under Polish law), the case was discontinued because no one except Nowak accused Behemoth of insulting their religious beliefs. (Under Polish law, there must be at least two formal complaints before a charge is laid. The previous complaint was made in 2008, and recently an unspecified number of other complaints had been filed.)

Nergal is pleading not guilty to the charge.

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