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After Ms. Snusk’s performance during Friday’s Mellogenrep, Melodifestivalen’s project manager Anders Wistbacka gathered together with the artist’s PR manager and several guards in a meeting.

An “incident” must have happened around the artist, but both SVT and the artist’s team were tight-lipped about what. Information later came that a drunken man had entered Ms. Snusk’s green room, which SVT later confirmed.

“Shocked and saddened”

Now the epa artist herself is commenting on the incident, via her PR manager Jessica W Sandberg. A man who did not belong to her team came first and sat down next to Miss Snusk, she says.

“When she then comes back to the lodges before her performance, we learn that the man sexually molested Fröken. We were, as you can understand, extremely upset. SVT immediately took this very seriously”she writes in a comment to Expressen.

Jessica W Sandberg does not want to comment on whether Miss Snusk has or will report the incident to the police.

After the incident, Ms. Snusk was “shaken and sad”, writes Jessica W Sandberg, but was still able to carry out the retraining.

SVT: “No lack of security”

Anders Wistbacka, project manager for Melodifestivalen, says in a comment that what happened is “unacceptable”. The person in question would not have been in the green room at the time, according to him.

“But there was no lack of security as the person had the correct accreditation to be there. This was a shortcoming in the editorial work that we have corrected”he says.

SVT’s security staff acted immediately and the person lost his accreditation and had to leave the arena, according to Anders Wistbacka.

Nor does SVT want to comment on a possible police report.

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Charles Koroma, who is a municipal manager on weekdays, is competing this weekend in Melodifestivalen as C-Joe.

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C-Joe during his performance on the center stage.

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The whole idea for “Ahumma” is to spread Afrobeats to the Swedish people. 32-year-old Charles Koroma came to Sweden from Sierra Leone as an eleven-year-old and has lived with music all his life.

But the fact that he would be in Melodifestivalen was far from predetermined. Rather than investing wholeheartedly in music, Charles Koroma, or C-Joe as he also calls himself, has trained as a sociologist and built a civil career in Vallentuna municipality.

– I get to be Charles Koroma, sociologist, Monday to Friday while I’m an artist on the weekends, he says and continues:

– I think it works very well. I know it’s a big contrast and people are shocked, but at the same time, I’ve always been into music, no matter what I’ve been working on.

Have taken vacation for Melodifestivalen

Eight years ago, he started at the Social Administration in Vallentuna municipality. And there he has remained.

– My nine-to-five job, it’s fun. It’s like any other person’s job. I’ve been doing it since 2016, so I know it – I’m the boss.

Several of his colleagues will be on site in Gothenburg today.

– They have always known that I was involved in music.

Ahead of Melodifestivalen’s second competition, he has taken a week off – and should a need to be off before March arise, there should be no difficulties for him to solve it.

– I have a good dialogue with my boss, there are no strange things.

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Miss Snusk on her dala horse on stage during her performance in Melodifestivalen.

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Miss Snusk says she has been very saddened by the comments on social media questioning her participation in Mello.

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With song lyrics such as “Ride me as a dala horse” and “Jag villl ha harda tag, ge mig strypsex i ditt garage” Ms. Snusk has become known for her daring word choices.

On Saturday, she takes part in Melodifestivalen, which is watched by families with children all over the country. It has caused several people on social media to react. It questions, among other things, why SVT allows the artist to participate in a “family program”.

Now Miss Snusk is speaking out about the criticism.

– It has been very busy. I have become very sad. This is my biggest dream since I was little. That people question that I shouldn’t be in. It’s really hard, she says.

How to deal with it?

– You just have to realize that everyone will think differently, not everyone will like me, but just that I am myself and show who I am when people get to meet me, that’s the most important thing, she says.

Miss Snusk has previously told us that she has songs that are less dirty and that her song in Melodifestivalen is not particularly dirty. In her contribution, she sings, among other things, “We pounded the tin and felt we were free. And I said, you there ‘Come as you are’. We will sing. We will sing. We are free”.

All competitors in competition 2 in Gothenburg

Maria Sur – ”When I’m gone”

Engman’s Chapel – “Northland”

Dear Sara – ”The silence of you”

C-Joe – ”Huma”

Liamoo – ”Dragon”

Miss Snusk – “Young and Free”

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Anders Wistbacka is project manager at Melodifestivalen and he emphasizes that Fröken Snusk is a participating artist who does not represent SVT.

– She can continue her normal activities outside the Melodifestivalen, including advertising, but she must never link her participation to the advertising, he says.

Criticism has been directed at you for letting her in, what do you think about that?

– I’m saying pretty much the same thing, she’s an exciting and talented artist, and that’s what we want. I find it difficult to have any opinions on her activities outside of Melodifestivalen.

What artistic void is she filling in Mello this year?

– She is an artist who acts in the epadunk, a large genre in Sweden. I think it is important that the Melodifestivalen is relevant in its time, then we must also have artists who act in a specific popular new genre – to be relevant, he says.

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So was the after-party after the first competition