• SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    6 months ago

    To be fair we don’t know exactly what he did. From what I’ve read it sounds like he somehow harassed an employee in the production crew, which honestly should be reason for exclusion. Assuming that is what happened, it doesn’t seem unjust and I don’t think the other participants should try to justify such behaviour.

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      6 months ago

      According to the dutch news orgs, he made a “threatening gesture” towards a (female) camera operator, after he asked not to be filmed, repeatedly (there were not supposed to be cameras at that point, so the request was not unjustified). There was no physical contact.

      Here’s the source (in dutch)

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        6 months ago

        According to Cornald Maas (the Dutch commentator for the Eurovision) the “threatening motion”, as far as he is aware, was Joost pushing down the camera/phone, after asking not to be filmed.

        Source (also in Dutch)