Kiev 2017

KIEV 2017

Juror physically attacked after national final

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Xavi Martínez, who sat in the jury during the heat of Spain, is after the show both verbally and physically attacked by someone from the audience in the Hall. The Spaniards thought that the whole show, and the strange scoring, rigged. In Spain there is today almost certainly only one topic of conversation: the dramatic points count during the national Eurovision final. Top favourite Mirela stays at home after two of the three judges not for her. The jury got the last word suddenly after Mirela and Manel in a tie for first place were terminated. Mirela had also won the televoting with Contigo and the audience in the Hall chanted plenty of her name. Two jurors, including Xavi Martínez, held and fingered Manel as their winner. Attacked After Manel crowned winner shouted some people blame the young man which he made an obscene gesture . There are images of: https://twitter.com/FormulaTV/status/830554717340200960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw so that’s not all. Were first turned off the Hall fans. At the end is someone from the audience the backstage run-in to Xavi Martínez first verbal, but then also to attack physically , that writes FormulaTV. There could fortunately quickly someone intervene. That Xavi after kop van jut was, is no surprise. The man is an ardent supporter of winner Manel and just he got all his points, to grant while he favorite Mirela the lowest number of points. At another juror happened about the same. The company of Xavi, Los 40 principales, was closely involved in the promotion of Manel, while the other candidates with much less promo had to do. It is against the rules that jurors have a close connection with one of the candidates, but the Spanish broadcaster saw apparently no bones in the relationship between the two. Watch the dramatic points count in Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ON0SEe21QE