Joost Klein , who was barred from this year’s Eurovision , has shared his relief over the ending of a ‘terrible’ few months after police announced they would not press charges over a ‘backstage incident.’ The Dutch singer, 26, was stopped by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) from participating in the final with the song after he was alleged to have made a ‘threatening movement’ a female production worker. Today the Swedish prosecution authority said in a statement they were closing the investigation because officers could not prove Klein caused or intended to cause fear.
The probe concluded Klein ‘made a movement that hit the woman’s film camera’ but ‘the course of events was fast and was perceived differently by the witnesses of the incident.’ ‘Today I have closed the investigation because I cannot prove that the act was capable of causing serious fear or that the man had any such intention’, said senior prosecutor Fredrik Jönsson. On Instagram addressing the Swedish police’s decision, Klein said he had felt ‘insecure’ since being barred from the Eurovision and urged everyone to ‘support each other.
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