STRAIGHT. Eurovision 2024: Croatia and Israel, favorites of the bookmakers, Slimane aspires to victory for France

In a video posted on Instagram, numerous artists, including Soprano, Christophe Willem and Florent Pagny, offer their support and declare their support for the singer to the sound of his title. My love.

“Slimane we love you”, sing Patrick Bruel and Patrick Fiori in particular.

Eden Golan is the subject of Israeli intelligence concerns, due to the climate of hostility towards Israel’s participation in the overall response to Gaza. Thus, the Shin Bet had ordered the young woman to limit her travel to Malmö, instructing her to leave her hotel room only for official events. So, we only saw it during traditional rehearsals.

In addition, a former Shin Bet security official, Mickey Weinberg, declared on the Israeli channel Channel 12 that Eden Golan would be accompanied in all her movements by a bodyguard.

Spectators from participating countries can participate in the voting. As always, they cannot vote for their own country. They will be able to vote through the official Eurovision application or by phone or SMS, to the number that will be shown on the screen during the show. The vote It will be inaugurated shortly before the first performance in the afternoon and will end between 25 and 40 minutes after the last one.

From 2023, the public from countries that do not participate in Eurovision can participate in the voting. Your vote is grouped into one category, “The rest of the world,” which has the same weight as an additional country.

Unlike the semifinals, a jury of experts from each country distributes points during the final. The result of the contest is determined 50% by the public vote and 50% by the points distributed by the professionals.

Croatia has not left the first place in the betting house rankings for days. She is represented by the singer Baby Lasagna, whose song Tim Tagi Dim Rim It’s as crazy as this pseudonym.

About 100,000 tourists from 80 different countries They were expected in Malmö. Fearing tensions related to Israel’s involvement, the city’s security director announced that the police presence would be reinforced with troops from Norway and Denmark, and more heavily armed police officers than usual.

In fact, thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gathered at the venue on Thursday, May 9, before the singer performed in the semifinal, to demand her exclusion.

The competition takes place in a climate of palpable tension due to the war between Israel and Hamas since October 7. Many voices were raised to demand the exclusion of the Jewish State, represented this year by Eden Golan and his song Hurricane.

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Calls for a boycott have increased in recent months. Furthermore, the Israeli delegation had to modify the song’s text twice at the request of the organizers, who initially considered it too political.

Many observers believe that this piece evokes, between the lines, the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 in Israeli territory, and which gave rise to an ultra-murderous Israeli response in Gaza. Read the article

The French delegation chose the successful singer, who is doing well since he was revealed by The voice in 2016. It represents the tricolor flag with the title My lovewhich he has been defending for months on foreign stages.

First in Croatia, then in Spain and England, the 34-year-old performer participated in the international campaign to meet the European public, and especially the voters. A winning strategy: the bookmakers predict a very good fifth place…

37 countries participated in this 68th edition of Eurovision and 20 qualified for the final during two semi-finals organized this week. These twenty finalists are joined by the six automatically qualified countries: the “big five”, those that contribute the most financially to the competition (France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom), as well as the host country, Sweden.

Earlier today, the Dutch candidate was excluded, for the first time in the history of the competition.

Therefore, tonight 25 artists and groups will perform on the Malmö Arena stage.

Hello everyone and thank you for joining us to follow the grand final of this 68th edition. The competition is being held this year in Malmö, Sweden, following Sweden’s Loreen’s victory in Liverpool last year. The evening begins at 9:00 p.m. and should end shortly after 1:00 a.m.