The world of football in Qatar continues to debate a few days before its kick -off because of its climate cost and criticism on the situation of human rights in this country.
Le Monde with AFP
While the world of football in Qatar continues to debate a few days before his kick -off, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, estimated Thursday, November 17 that we should not “politicize sport”. “These questions must be asked when we attribute the event,” he said in Bangkok.
The first football world cup never organized in the Arab world, which begins on Sunday, arouses several controversies, as much on the living conditions of local workers, the impact on the environment of air -conditioned stadiums and the place of women and minorities lgbtq+.
These criticisms have pushed certain supporters, especially from Western Europe, to boycott the competition. On the other hand, the president said that he would go to Qatar if the Blues arrived in the final or in the semi-finals.
“a very bad idea”
m. Macron insisted that “it was a very bad idea to politicize sport”, recalling that Paris was going to organize the Olympic Games in 2024. He went to Russia in 2018 to attend the World Cup final by the Blues against Croatia.
The French team, which arrived in Doha on Wednesday, remains cautious in its positions on human rights. Players have notably given up a joint initiative for several European selections, who want their captains to carry a colored tape brassard during the competition, in support of the fight against discrimination.
FIFA has still not given its green light as to this operation, while homosexuality is criminalized in the gas emirate. We must “show respect” to the organizing country, justified himself the captain of the Blues, Hugo Lloris.