SATARIAL: "Hey Metalheads! We have very bad news. The European Commission has decided to confiscate cars and property of Russians who are in the EU. We cannot use our tour bus right now and this will greatly complicate our ability to come to you for concerts. And if our musical instruments are taken away from us, then our lives will end there. And this means that putin will win. We wrote an open letter to the European Commission, the text of which is given below. For those who care, please write about it and share this message. Freedom and your support are very important to us. Thank you!"

 Russian black metal warriors SATARIAL, via BANDCAMP have reached out to dans and the European Union regarding the possible confiscation of their motor vehicles after migrating from Russia. .  

 

 SATARIAL unleashed "BLESSED BRIGIT",   9/1/2016 via DEATH PORTAL STUDIO and SYMBOL OF DOMINATION PRODUCTIONS (CO RELEASE).

 

 

 

 

FROM SATARIAL:

 

Hey Metalheads! We have very bad news.

The European Commission has decided to confiscate cars and property of Russians who are in the EU. We cannot use our tour bus right now and this will greatly complicate our ability to come to you for concerts. And if our musical instruments are taken away from us, then our lives will end there. And this means that putin will win. We wrote an open letter to the European Commission, the text of which is given below. For those who care, please write about it and share this message.

Freedom and your support are very important to us.

Thank you!

We, the musical group Satarial.

We have been fighting the Putin regime for more than 20 years.

Several years ago, in Russia, investigative authorities opened criminal cases against us on false charges, but the courts found us innocent in these criminal cases.

Government authorities in Russia have repeatedly seized our bank accounts.

There were also attempts on our lives several times.

We have evidence and publications in the press for all these facts.

We are one of the first to opposed the war in Georgia.

In 2014, we held a rally in the center of Moscow, where we opposed the annexation of Crimea.

Since 2016, we have repeatedly spoken and warned European countries about the potential threat of a Russian attack on Ukraine and that the Russian government is preparing the people for such an invasion.

We even met with a representative of the Latvian Embassy, Zigmund Zilgalvis.

But, unfortunately, the governments of European countries did not take our assumptions into account.

On September 20, 2021, Russian security services came to the members of our musical group in Moscow with searches.

And on the same day, having loaded only our concert equipment into the car, we left Russia across the Belarusian-Polish border by car.

We left most of our musical equipment, all our personal belongings and cars in Russia.

All this was abandoned and is now lost to us.

We are in a severe depressive emotional state.

The only thing that saves us from suicide is our concerts and our duty to our listeners.

Actions such as recommendations made by the Euro Commission for customs on the confiscation of personal belongings, including cars, from Russians staying in the EU or crossing the border, violate human rights, constitute discrimination based on nationality, and also violate ethical standards adopted in the European Union countries.

Most Russians now in Europe fled repression, are in opposition, or do not agree with the policies of the Russian state and the war that Putin unleashed.

Many of them, just like us, abandoned all their belongings and left only in their cars.

For us, a car is the only means of transportation that gives us the opportunity to give concerts, that is, a means of livelihood.

With these recommendations, you are allowing to take away our only means of livelihood, and since we are in a depressed state, our lives.

We have fought for freedom and human rights in Russia almost our entire adult life.

But now here, in democratic Europe, we are faced with the same injustice against people as in Russia.

And we have the impression that these recommendations were written as if under the dictation of Mr. Putin, who told opposition-minded Russians traveling abroad to the Russian Federation that they would leave Russia naked.

And now propaganda television in Russia is in high spirits and says that traitors to Russia are hated all over the world and their things and cars are confiscated in Europe.

Putin does not have enough people to conduct military operations, so it seems that the European Union is doing everything to prevent people from leaving Russia and Putin can to forcing them to go to war in Ukraine.

Where is your ethics, where is your democracy, and where is your common sense in these recommendations?

We kindly ask you to cancel these recommendations, which violate EU legal standards.

 

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-