The felony investigation into Bob Vylan for main chants of “Loss of life to the IDF” at Glastonbury 2025 won’t result in costs, the BBC stories.
“Now we have concluded, after reviewing all of the proof, that it doesn’t meet the felony threshold outlined by the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] for any individual to be prosecuted,” Avon and Somerset Police stated in an announcement.
Along with calling out the IDF, or Israel Protection Drive, the punk duo chanted “Free Palestine,” resulting in accusations that that they had violated Britain’s stringent hate speech legal guidelines.
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Bob Vylan additionally projected the message “United Nations have known 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 no matter the regulation. Bob Vylan beat the fees, however you possibly can’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, when it comes to the intent behind them, the broader context of how folks heard what was stated, case regulation and anything probably related, together with freedom of speech.” The investigation is now closed: “No additional motion might be taken.”
Within the aftermath of the efficiency, Bob Vylan had their US visas revoked and issued a clarifying assertion saying they had been calling for the “dismantling of a violent army machine,” not the deaths of any “race or group of individuals.”