Stage invader at Eurovision is a Corbyn fanatic
‘I’ve always said anything can happen’
THE ranting protester who interrupted British singer SuRie’s performance at the Eurovision Song Contest is a Corbynite conspiracy theorist.
Konstantin Bouki, 30, stormed the stage in Lisbon on Saturday night and ripped her microphone out of her hand.
The shocked singer was left clapping along to her own song for 15 seconds before being handed another microphone and carrying on.
Bouki shouted ‘Nazis of the UK media … we demand freedom, war is not peace’ before he was bundled away by security staff.
The protester – who endorsed Jeremy Corbyn at the last election in a video filmed at the scene of the London Bridge terror attack – was questioned by Portuguese police as organisers started an investigation.
He has previously called the BBC ‘vampires, blood- suckers and Nazis’ and has protested in front of Broadcasting House with bottles of fake blood.
In January the self- styled ‘ philosopher and activist’ tried to run on to the stage at the National Television Awards in London. He also stormed the stage of the final of ITV’s The Voice but was hauled off by security guards.
Bouki, who has been pictured with family in Albania, had been renting a room in a six-bedroom £700,000 house in Willesden, North-West London, until a few months ago.
He worked in security and was listed as a director of Movement Security Ltd until April 2016. He also DJs in pubs and clubs in trendy Shoreditch, East London, and uploads songs to online streaming websites.
In online videos he has encouraged his 43 followers to burn British Legion poppies and described broadcasters Jeremy Paxman as a ‘fascist’ and Andrew Neil as the ‘first Adolf Hitler of the BBC’.
After the event SuRie, 29, tweeted: ‘I’ve always said anything can happen at Eurovision.’
She finished 24th out of 26 entries during the annual contest, which was won by Israel.
Some viewers claimed that the stage invasion proved that Eurovision singers mime their songs.
When Bouki ripped the microphone from SuRie’s hand the backing track, which included the vocals for the chorus to her song Storm, continued to run.
Critics on Twitter said this showed contestants were miming, but the European Broadcasting Union, which organises the event, said: ‘The artists do not mime.’