Behemoth’s Nergal’s ‘blasphemy’ judgment overturned on appeal

This past February, BEHEMOTH frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski was convicted for offending religious feelings by a court in Warsaw. The charges stemmed from an image the Polish musician posted on social media showing a foot stamping on a picture of the Virgin Mary. At the time, Darski was ordered to pay a fine of 15,000 złoty (approximately $4,000) and court costs of almost 3,500 zloty (approximately $942).

Nergal refused to accept the guilty plea and contested the charges with the case having since been dismissed after the prosecutor failed to call upon any witnesses. In the ruling, the judge wrote the photo in question was posted on Nergal’s social media and was therefore only made available to a specific group of people who could read it after observing the disclaimer at the top of the page: “The content presented on this profile may offend your religious and other feelings. If you don’t want that to happen, stop following me.”

Nergal has made a following statement about the development in the case on his Instagram account:

“Case DISMISSED. There’s NOTHING controversial about the jury’s verdict so fuckin’ DEAL with it. AFTER ALL we live in civilized and democratic country… still. Common sense beats the shit out of fundamentalist agenda which means on more step towards Poland remaining a secular state! Moreover, I know it’s like talking to the wall but to all my adversaries: dont’t give me that “do the same with Koran” bullshit coz it’s old and irrelevant. I keep on spamming here coz I simply LOVE polarization between half of u dear followers congratulating me for the battle won and the other half… that would love see me crucifucked 😂🤓😎”

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