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Remainer campaigners to ‘hijack’ Eurovision with anti-Brexit disruption | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV

According to reports, anti-Brexit campaigners will be handing out EU flags at Eurovision 2023 this weekend which they want the audience to wave throughout the event.

The pro-EU Liverpool for Europe group has got 75,000 EU flags, which they hope to bring into Liverpool Arena.

The group hopes to turn Eurovision into an “anti-Brexit propaganda coup.”

One activist said the protest was being coordinated with the Liverpool for Europe group and several other organisations.

“We’ve been urging people to wave EU flags outside the arena at the semi-final events, but on Saturday, when the audience will be at its biggest, we are going to get as many flags inside as possible,” the activist told the Daily Mail.

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“Liverpool is an anti-Brexit city, and we want that message to come across.”

For those attending Eurovision, the rules states flags will not be permitted inside Liverpool Arena.

The reports came after anti-Brexit campaigners hijacked the Last Night of the Proms in 2019.

The activists were slammed by BBC viewers at the time for disrupting the event by waving flags.

The activists claimed to have collected 50,000 EU flags to hand out across the various Last Night of the Proms events.

The singing competition will take place between May 9 and May 13 after it was decided it was not safe to stage it in Ukraine, who won the competition last year.

Another fear for Eurovision organisers is that pro-Russian hackers could disrupt the final by hacking into the broadcasts and silencing the song contest.

Government fears that the competition could become a digital front of the Ukraine war.

Experts from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) were called in after the government and Eurovision organisers raised concerns.

A security source told The Times: “While it’s possible to be confident that concertgoers will be safe, the cyber side is far more unpredictable.”

In 2019, hackers were successful in interrupting the contest in Israel and saw the national broadcaster’s online stream being replaced with footage of explosions, which the Israeli government blamed on Hamas.

The Eurovision Song Contest returns tonight at 8pm on BBC One.

 

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