Nemo, winner of Eurovision 2024: “I return the trophy won”

NemoSwiss entry that won Eurovision in 2024decided to return the prize obtained for the failure to exclude Israel from the event. The announcement of the singer, the first non-binary person to triumph at Eurovision, arrived while Iceland, after Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands, gave up competing in Vienna in May at the next edition of the competition. This is the text he published on social media: “Last year I won Eurovision and was awarded a trophy. And although I am grateful to the community around this competition and what this experience has taught me both as a person and as an artist, today I no longer feel that this trophy should be on my shelf. Eurovision says it represents unity, inclusion and dignity for all. But Israel’s participation, during what the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded was a genocideshows a clear conflict between those ideals and the decisions made.”