Varg Vikernes - Found Guilty In French Trial
The Local is reporting that Burzum's Varg Vikernes has been found guilty by a French court of inciting racial hatred and glorifying war crimes through his blog postings. His trial started in June after being postponed last year. Vikernes was originally arrested in 2013 on suspicion of planning a terrorist act but released from custody shortly after. He was tried on incitement charges related to anti-Semitic and xenophobic postings on his blog.
The Norwegian musician faces a ?8,000 ($10,000) fine and six-month suspended prison sentence for blog postings that allegedly glorified war crimes and promoted discrimination against Jews and Muslims. Vikernes, 41, was not present in court and neither was his lawyer as the verdict was delivered. He has denied posting racist blogs and said they were written by someone else.
Varg told the court that according to Norwegian secret police there were "at any given moment 350 people pretending to be Varg Vikernes on Facebook", adding that "anybody can very easily put up a blog" that appeared to be one of his. Ten excerpts from the blogs written between March and June 2013 that attack Muslims and Jews were presented as evidence in court.
Burzum also released the new album The Ways Of Yore this year in case you hadn't noticed.
The Norwegian musician faces a ?8,000 ($10,000) fine and six-month suspended prison sentence for blog postings that allegedly glorified war crimes and promoted discrimination against Jews and Muslims. Vikernes, 41, was not present in court and neither was his lawyer as the verdict was delivered. He has denied posting racist blogs and said they were written by someone else.
Varg told the court that according to Norwegian secret police there were "at any given moment 350 people pretending to be Varg Vikernes on Facebook", adding that "anybody can very easily put up a blog" that appeared to be one of his. Ten excerpts from the blogs written between March and June 2013 that attack Muslims and Jews were presented as evidence in court.
Burzum also released the new album The Ways Of Yore this year in case you hadn't noticed.
Photo: Jacques Demarthon/AFP
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| ManiacBlasphemer Black Knight Posts: 1085  |
After so much trouble he has been through in his teenage years you would think that a man who wasted the most important years of his life would want to have a decent, peaceful life in a more secluded place. But no... Vikernes is the kind of guy that no matter how much trouble he gets into, he just won't learn. Varg dude, this time you have a family, think about it when you post stupid racist, xenophobic shit because the ones who will suffer will be your kids and your wife.
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| Ocean Sage Posts: 473  |
Wow, there goes Burzum and Varg's family. They are going to get the rough end of this.
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| Windrider Raureif Posts: 684  |
"written by someone else ..." He has this damn huge site online in which he constantly posts shit... The stuff about Burzum is interesting, but together with his wife (which is ready for the asylum) they think of too much shit and write it down...
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| Paz Elite Posts: 3911  |
Written by Guest on 08.07.2014 at 21:31 Famine peeing on the internet, if I remember correctly. So he (rather) don't have a blog where publishes such content. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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| Unhealer Eclecticist Posts: 2311  |
Written by Paz on 08.07.2014 at 22:13 Dunno about blogs, but you can find interviews where he speaks out his mind without hesitation. Keep in mind that Varg is a celebrity by now, when this arrest happened it even had a place on the most popular newspaper of my country... and that won't happen unless it's something big. On the contrary, nobody knows who Famine is. And those who know the bands he was involved in may not recognize him by his pseudonym either.
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| Andrew_Deer None,really Posts: 61  |
Well, this is insteresting. So he got fined just for writing down his thoughts? It's like arresting a songwriter or poet. How come people can't write what they want? Or do I understand wrong?
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| Alakazam spendin' cheese Posts: 1218  |
As with the memorabilia in his past, those autographed things can potentially be worth a lot, depending on the markets saturation with how many.
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| Karlabos Meat and Potatos Posts: 5658  |
Written by Andrew_Deer on 08.07.2014 at 23:05 Agree with this.
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| Ocean Sage Posts: 473 |
Written by Guest on 08.07.2014 at 21:33 Their reputation is just going to keep getting worse. Before it was just Varg and his then girlfriend. His kids will grow up with everyone hating, bullying and potentially hurting/threatening them. It's a different situation. Don't be ignorant and group every Varg controversy together. Imagine his family's perspective and have a heart or at least empathize with someone else there, man.
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| Vombatus Potorro Posts: 2355  |
Written by Andrew_Deer on 08.07.2014 at 23:05 Well, being condemned or censored for "racial hatred" is quite common... And I guess french authorities were a bit frustrated after last years intervention so they were looking forward to this.
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| Rsrdaman Posts: 70  |
Written by Andrew_Deer on 08.07.2014 at 23:05 I'm thinking the same thing. Unless I'm reading this wrong, he is getting fined for "discrimination against Jews and Muslims"? He's a irreligious Black Metal musician, of course he is going to be against them just as much as he is against Christians. How is it any different?
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
No matter how bad my life gets, at least I know I'm not Varg Vikernes.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| Ilham Giant robot Posts: 5161  |
Written by deadone on 09.07.2014 at 04:53 I love how you mix two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
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| Ilham Giant robot Posts: 5161 |
Written by deadone on 09.07.2014 at 05:05 You are comparing two events that are in no way similar, neither in terms of context nor gravity. I think you are very quick to judge every time the word "muslim" appears somewhere, and that leads you to put together any fact you might have heard of with the one in hand. I don't think that's how you should think about the situation. Thinking only with examples and counter-examples leads to nothing.
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| Ilham Giant robot Posts: 5161 |
Written by deadone on 09.07.2014 at 05:29 I don't know if I made myself clear. I am not commenting on your post because I side with the verdict. I have absolutely no interest in what Varg does with his mouth. I just don't think it's reasonable to compare a terrorist act to this. It's fact that you don't want to see. Just because there is something in this story about Varg dissing muslims, it doesn't mean you can compare it to an unrelated crime involving a muslim and put the two together so as to draw the conclusion the French justice system is biased, flawed, skewed, or whatever you were trying to say. It makes you look almost like a conspiracy nut. Again, I am talking about your reasoning in itself.
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| LeChron James Helvetesfossen Posts: 3561  |
Varg is the OJ Simpson of black metal. Dude cannot stay out of trouble even if he tries haha.
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| M C Vice ex-polydactyl Posts: 3353  |
"It wasn't me who wrote it. It was Øystein. He did it."
---- "Another day, another Doug." "I'll fight you on one condition. That you lower your nipples." " 'Tis a lie! Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!"
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| Ilham Giant robot Posts: 5161 |
Written by deadone on 09.07.2014 at 06:08 I understand what you're trying to say, but I still don't agree. The struggle against islam radicals and terrorists happens in the dark. Most of what is done in that matter is never disclosed to the public, and if it is, it happens only after being filtered first and distorted by the media then. You can't say the French justice is biased against nazis (lol) compared to radical imams based on what I still think is an isolated event of a nutter not being able to shut his mouth and got fined quick for it. You are always bringing the subject back to islam. That is your problem. Plus you are trying to bring me into the ring, yet I have said I had absolutely no interest in debating the subject of Varg or radical mulslim crimes in France and the way the justice reacts to them.
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