During his furtive passage on the lawn on Monday evening, the man also wore a flocked t-shirt of the “Superman” logo, where messages of support for Ukraine and Iranian women were also displayed.
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The political message was multiple to be sure that it passes. A man brandishing the Arc-en-Ciel LGBT flag and dressed in a t-shirt flocked with the “Superman” logo, which appeared messages of support for Iranian women and Ukraine, quickly entered the lawn of the stadium Lusail in Doha in Qatar, Monday, November 28, in the middle of the match between Portugal and Uruguay.
The message “Save Ukraine” (“Save Ukraine”) was registered at the front of the t-shirt when the “respect for Iranian Woman” was written (“respect for Iranian women”). After crossing the field running for thirty seconds, the man was intercepted by security agents and escorted outside the stadium, where the World Cup final will be played on December 18.
The scene was only shown fleeing by television, as is often the case when a supporter bursts into the lawn during a FIFA competition match as well as UEFA, to try to ‘Avoid any wave of stadium submersion. If his action was not filmed, we could see the referee of the meeting picking up the flag before going to deposit it out of the limits. In the immediate future, no information on this man was available.
strong criticism and political gestures
The organizers of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are in place to many criticisms on the issue of human rights, as well as the rights of women and LGBT people, in a country where homosexuality is notably liable to prosecution criminal.
If FIFA assured that flags or clothes in the colors of the rainbow would be accepted in the stadiums, in fact, they have been confiscated several times by the security forces. And while seven European selections had said their intention to bring their captain of a “One Love” brassard to their captain, they finally gave it up in the face of threats of sports sanctions brandished by FIFA.
The British Minister of Sports, Stuart Andrew, however announced that he would wear him on Tuesday during the meeting between England and Wales, two of the seven selections that gave up wearing it. For its part, the group of English fans 3LionsPride, which represents the LGBT+supporters, decided before the competition that its members would not go to Qatar.
“These matches should be a celebration for all fans, but unfortunately many of them feel that it is not the case. This is not a tournament for them. They felt that they could not be part of it and it is not acceptable, “regretted the minister.
He will not be the first member of a government to display a political message in Qatar by carrying this armband. The German Interior Minister Nancy FaeSer, in charge of sports, brought her next to the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, during the defeat of Germany against Japan last Wednesday. On the same day, Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hadja Lahbib did the same during the Red Devils’ victory against Canada.