Wow, this year just gets more and more wild for Eurovision doesn't it?
The BBC
reports that the case will go before prosecutors within a few week. Now obviously I have no knowledge of the Swedish laws (surprise), but to my understanding at least in the UK, that means whatever it was, was pretty dang serious of a threat. Here you'd just be told "no, don't do that again" by the police and then released either with no charge or a warning on your record, unless it can be shown your threat has real weight & intention behind it, rather than some flippant thing because you were a little upset. But again, i have no Swedish law knowledge, so maybe it's all taken more seriously in general. Also the police investigation is said to be completed, Swedish police don't mess about, from report to completion in < 24 hrs? Not bad at all, puts our investigation lengths to shame...
Europapa was a great cheesy Eurovision song, and I will miss not seeing it tonight, but if Joost has done something serious, then it is deserved it is not shown. I do feel for Joosts supporting musicians & writers though, what a disappointment it'll be for them with a song expected to do so well on the night. I will be curious to see how the narrator on the British side, Graham Norton, words it. Makes me wonder if they'll have time to change all the numbering too, or if they'll be an obvious gap, given all the countries will need their phone lines altering to -1 the number to call after Netherlands running order. If there is a big hole in the numbering sequence, will be hard to avoid people noticing, and cause even more of a stir.
The comments on several videos for the Eurovision from SFs 1 & 2 are now... a little bit of a dumpster fire, shall we say.
With Europapa expecting to come very high in terms of votes, the question is. Who will they back now, or will they just not vote and lose their voting $$$ as a show of irritance? I hope with the zanyness of Europapa, Switzerlands very energetic performance will benefit from extra votes.