The Eurovision Song Contest is expected to be one of the largest police operations ever in Sweden. Thousands of officers will be deployed to secure the arena and the city of Malmö from May 7 to 11, Swedish broadcaster SVT reports.
Not only will forces from Denmark and Norway be reinforced, the airspace above the city will also be closed. The police take into account incoming danger via drones.
Special equipment is used to remove drones from the air. Agents from the Swedish southern province of Skane cannot be given leave during the Eurovision Song Contest. Malmö already announced earlier this week
that stricter security measures apply during the event. The host city reported that this concerns visible and invisible measures.
Sweden takes demonstrations into account because of Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. Protests have taken place in various countries in recent months because Israel is welcome despite the war in Gaza. Organizer European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has repeatedly indicated that the Eurovision Song Contest is a “non-political event”. Source: nu.nl
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