Joost Klein: Disqualified Eurovision singer will not face charges

Dutch singer Joost Klein had been accused of threatening behaviour towards a female camera operator.

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Klein was banned from the grand final hours before it took place in Malmö on 11 May, after a female camera operator accused him of "threatening" behaviour.

However, on Monday, the Swedish prosecution authority said it could not prove that Klein "had any such intention".

Senior prosecutor Fredrik Jönssom said the singer had made "a movement that hit the woman’s film camera" but that the course of events "was fast and was perceived differently by the witness of the incident".

“Today I have closed the investigation because I cannot prove that the act was capable of causing serious fear," he added.

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