ISIS ‘planning major attack’ on Eurovision Song Contest putting 16,000 at risk
Intelligence sources claim the annual competition is the target of the terrorist group

Reports today have suggested that ISIS are planning an attack on the Eurovision Song Contest BBC
By GEORGINA LITTLEJOHN
11:35, 29 Apr 2016

EUROVISION bosses have been warned that ISIS are reportedly planning a major attack on the competition.

According to Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the song contest is one of the targets being investigated by the country’s security service Sapo.

It reports that earlier this week, Eurovision officials met with Stockholm police to dicuss the event’s security and the threat of ISIS was discussed.

Speaking to the paper, Stockholm police spokesperson Kjell Lindgren, who attended the Eurovision meeting, said: “It was a planned meeting within the specific section created ahead of the event in Globen Arena.

“Of course we shared all the information we are allowed to share.”

According to the Daily Star, eight fanatics have recently entered Stockholm after fighting for ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

One of the gang is said to have close links to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the notorious leader of the West-hating death cult.

The competition will take place at the Globen Arena in Stockholm on May 14 and will be attended by up to 16,000 people.

Expressen, another Swedish paper, reported: “Swedish security service has received information from Iraqi security officials that seven to eight ISIS terrorists have entered Sweden to carry out acts of terror in Stockholm.

“According to the information, the terrorists are planning to attack civilian targets in the capital.”

Recent statistics have shown that Sweden has the second most ISIS fighters per capita in the EU, second only to Belgium.

Some 300 people have left Sweden to join the terrorist organisation in Iraq and Syria in the past two years and around half of these are from the city of Gothenburg, Sweden's second largest city.

The BBC’s Graham Norton is set to host the show again this year and according to reports is planning to travel to Sweden early for rehearsals.

A Eurovision representative told The Sun Online: "According to the police, there are no specific threats directed at the Eurovision Song Contest as of today. The responsible security authorities from the City of Stockholm, SVT and the EBU work closely together on the topics of safety and security, which are, as always, a high priority for the organisers."

They added that while Jesper is dealing with Stockholhm's involvement in the Eurovision Song Contest, he is "not a representative of the EBU, Host Broadcaster SVT or the Eurovision Song Contest itself."

Last week it was also revealed that Romania has been kicked out of the competition due to unpaid broadcasting debts.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) says that the Romanian public service broadcaster Televiziunea Romana (TVR) owes them a staggering £11.4 MILLION (16 million Swiss francs).

And as the Romanian government has failed to make satisfactory arragements to repay the debt, or cough-up in full, they've had to take the "regrettable" decision to kick the nation out of the competition.

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