Behemoth was detained by the FMS

On Wednesday evening, on April 21, in Yekaterinburg, employees of the Federal Migration Service detained the musicians of the Polish metal group Behemoth. They did not have “cultural visas”, and now they are facing a deportation.

The detention was carried out in such a way that the Yekaterinburg news portal ZNAC.com described it as a abduction: “At the black entrance to the musicians, young people, dressed in sportswear, were pushed into a minibus, which left in an unknown direction.”

“ The Behemoth group had only business visas. -explained to ITAR-TASS in the regional FMS. “Although in order to play concerts from citizens of a foreign state must have cultural visas with the implementation of touring activities.”

The group members on their Facebook page reported that today, May 22, in Yekaterinburg, at 9:00 local time, a court will take place, where a decision will be made to deport.

Earlier, the group’s concerts in Tomsk, Khabarovsk, Vladivostok and Novosibirsk were torn due to the protests of representatives of the “Orthodox community”.

In particular, the local administration canceled the concert in Khabarovsk at the request of the “Union of the Orthodox Brotherhoods of the Russian Orthodox Church”, the Novosibirsk branch of the Public Movement “People’s Cathedral” asked to bring Behemoth to insult the feelings of believers, and the interregional public organization “Orthodox Union” applied to the investigative bodies with the demand to give legal assessment to give legal assessment to give a legal assessment of the concert. Behemoth in Krasnodar, appointed on May 26.

This concert was supposed to complete the tour of the Polish group in 13 cities of Russia under the name "Russian Satanist", which began in St. Petersburg on May 10. After that, the group has planned performances in Minsk (May 27) and Kyiv (May 28).