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itthon). Forrás: New Musical Express (http://www.nme.com/news/104751.htm)
"FREE-D!
MASSIVE ATTACK's ROBERT 3-D DEL
NAJA has spoken for the first time about his arrest
- and subsequent clearing on internet pornography
offences.
Detectives seized computer equipment and a
quantity of suspected drugs during a raid at Del
Naja's home in Bristol (February 25). The arrest
was made under Avon and Somerset's Operation
Ricochet, part of Operation Ore, the national
crackdown on child porn. The enquiries were
subsequently dropped by police, with all his property seized returned.
Speaking in today's The Guardian newspaper, Del Naja says he has always
been open about his use of pornography, but his credit card details were on a
database from 1999, when he was charged $3.
"The company that it's attributed to owns hundreds of websites, all different,
some of which are absolutely vile, hideous," he said. "I was away in London
and somebody phoned up and told me they'd been let into my house by a mate
of mine. They took everything, every video, every memory stick, every hard
drive, spent a month analysing it and found absolutely nothing."
Del Naja says he has considered whether or not he has a case for legal action
against the police, but has decided not to proceed. He continued: "We've
talked about what I can do about it, but it would be a long-drawn-out,
expensive scenario. I don't want to get involved in it because I don't want to
spend my life focusing on it. I don't want to spend my money on it."
Before the charges were dropped, Massive Attack were due to start their
world tour in Australia and New Zealand. The first shows were initially
rearranged, but 3-D says that getting up on stage was incredibly difficult.
"It was the hardest time in my life," he added. "I had to go on tour with those
allegations in the air, which was horrendous. I didn't want to wallow in self-pity
or martyr myself on stage. I decided not to get involved with making comments
in the press, so I made a statement to the audience each night - 'If everyone's
here, I guess you don't believe these ridiculous charges' - which got a big
cheer. That's how it went down."
He added that since the allegations, his life has become "more difficult" -
despite his innocence. He concluded: "Now I walk into a shop or pub and I
can't rally be myself. I have to look at everyone twice in the eye. I have to
confront almost everyone: if you've got something to fucking say to me, come
out and say it, let me fucking hear it...
"You can say that it's a load of bollocks, but once it's written down, it's written
down. It could come up in my obituary. All the things I've done in my life and
that might come up. What's that about? I feel shattered but you learn from it.
When I wake up in the morning I get that sinking feeling. But you have to deal
with it, you have to go forward. It's given me a lot more resolve to do what I
want to do."
Massive Attack will pay a five night residency at London Brixton Academy
next week. It has sold out.
Published: 11-04-2003-10-10"
