The municipalities of the two cities refuse to disseminate the very controversial football event, which will be held from November 20 to December 18.
Le Monde with AFP
There will be no giant screen in Lille to follow the Football World Cup (from November 20 to December 18) after the adoption by the municipal council of a “disapproving declaration” its outfit in Qatar , a “nonsense with regard to human rights, the environment and sport”, announced on Saturday 1 er October the mayor of the city, Martine Aubry (Socialist Party, PS).
“We will not broadcast any match on a giant screen,” said the elected official in a tweet, adding that the declaration had been adopted “unanimously” in the night from Friday to Saturday by the municipal council, where the majority PS faces the opposition of ecological and macronist groups. The city will not put itself either “in the colors of an event that we refuse to support,” said Arnaud Deslandes, assistant to M me aubry.
Unanimously, the municipal council of #Lille voted this evening an disapproving declaration of the Cup of the… https://t.co/wx0kg9vuvy
– Martineaubry (@Martine Aubry)
“Strasbourg, European capital, cannot close”
Like Lille, Strasbourg will not broadcast any World Cup match on a giant screen. “It is impossible for us not to hear the many alerts of NGOs which denounce the abuses and exploitation of immigrant workers. Thousands of foreign workers died on construction sites, it is unbearable,” said the mayor this week City environmentalist, Jeanne Barseghian, interviewed by 20 minutes.
“Strasbourg, European capital, seat of the European Court of Human Rights, cannot decently endorse these mistreatment, cannot close their eyes when human rights are thus flouted”, continues the elected representative of the Alsatian city .
The question of migrant workers’ rights in Qatar has been regularly posed by NGOs since the allocation of the largest football competition in the rich Gulf gas in 2010. According to the British daily The Guardian, there would already be had 6,500 dead on the World Cup sites; A figure fiercely denied by the Qatari authorities.