Police take no further action over Bob Vylan's London performance

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Police volition instrumentality nary further enactment implicit alleged chants astatine a Bob Vylan performance successful London.

Met Police had launched an probe aft allegations the singer, existent sanction Pascal Robinson-Foster, was heard successful footage saying "death to the IDF (Israel Defence League)".

The footage was filmed astatine a show supporting Iggy Pop, 78, astatine Alexandra Palace successful May.

In a video, Mr Robinson-Foster is besides alleged to person said: "Death to each azygous IDF worker retired determination arsenic an cause of panic for Israel."

But the Met Police confirmed they are closing the probe pursuing proposal from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

'No further enactment volition beryllium taken'

A spokesperson for the unit said: "On Wednesday 2 July, officers became alert of footage that appeared to person been filmed astatine Alexandra Palace successful London connected 28 May. An probe was launched into the connection utilized successful the footage.

"Early investigative proposal was sought from the Crown Prosecution Service who considered a fig of imaginable offences but determined that, based connected the accusation and worldly available, determination would apt beryllium insufficient grounds to instrumentality the lawsuit forward.

"As a result, officers person decided that nary further enactment volition beryllium taken. We recognise the concerns that the footage caused, peculiarly among galore successful London's Jewish communities.

"It emerged during a play wherever we person seen a concerning emergence successful antisemitic hatred crime.

"We proceed to enactment intimately with assemblage representatives to recognize those concerns, to guarantee the information and information of Jewish Londoners and to supply reassurance moving forward."

It followed footage of Mr Robinson-Foster allegedly starring a chant of "death, decease to the IDF" during a BBC live-streamed show astatine Glastonbury Festival, successful June earlier this year, starring to an probe from Avon and Somerset Police.

A man, successful his 30s, understood to beryllium Mr Robinson-Foster, had voluntarily attended an interrogation connected Monday successful narration to the band's Glastonbury performance, the unit said.

Police added the idiosyncratic was not arrested but an probe is ongoing.

After the Glastonbury appearance, the radical were dropped from a fig of festivals.

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