Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003
The Belgian participating broadcaster, Walloon Radio-télévision belge de la Communauté française (RTBF), internally selected in December 2002 its entry for the contest.[1] Since then, the country has won the contest on one occasion in 1986 with the song "J'aime la vie" performed by Sandra Kim.[3] On 18 December 2002, the broadcaster announced that they had selected the group Urban Trad to represent Belgium in Riga, performing the song "Sanomi" at the contest.It was alleged that Collier had also attended a commemorative event in honour of the Nazi leader Rudolf Hess in Antwerp in 1996.[9][10] In July 2003, a report from Comité I, which monitors the Belgian State Security Service, was published that revealed that the time of the initial investigation into Soetkin Collier she had already been deemed as 'no longer a danger to democracy' for at least five years prior.