The criminal investigation into Bob Vylan for main chants of “Dying to the IDF” at Glastonbury 2025 is not going to result in costs, the BBC stories.
“We’ve got concluded, after reviewing all of the proof, that it doesn’t meet the prison threshold outlined by the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] for any particular person to be prosecuted,” Avon and Somerset Police stated in a press release.
Along with calling out the IDF, or Israel Protection Drive, the punk duo chanted “Free Palestine,” resulting in accusations that they’d violated Britain’s stringent hate speech legal guidelines.
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Bob Vylan additionally projected the message “United Nations have referred to as it a genocide. The BBC calls it a ‘battle.’” (And to not rag on the British Broadcasting Company, however over half their article about Bob Vylan is given over to teams denouncing the choice regardless of the regulation. Bob Vylan beat the fees, however you’ll be able to’t say the identical for the BBC.)
Police interviewed “roughly 200” members of the general public, including, “We sought particular consideration across the phrases acknowledged, by way of the intent behind them, the broader context of how folks heard what was stated, case regulation and the rest probably related, together with freedom of speech.” The investigation is now closed: “No additional motion will likely be taken.”
Within the aftermath of the efficiency, Bob Vylan had their US visas revoked and issued a clarifying statement saying they had been calling for the “dismantling of a violent navy machine,” not the deaths of any “race or group of individuals.”
