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Just over a month from the start of the World Cup in Qatar, intriguing elements surround the attribution of the event to the Gulf country. It would even seem that France had its role to play. This is the subject of the franceinfo “Talk”. Every evening from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users on the franceinfo Twitch channel.
“By what miracle did Qatar, which had the worst record of all the candidates, obtain the World Cup?”. A question all the more astonishing as it was asked by Sepp Blatter himself, former president of FIFA. And just over a month before the opening of the competition, the host country seems to be less and less unanimous.
To talk behind the scenes of this intriguing attribution, the Talk receives journalists Benoît Collombat, from the Investigation unit of Radio France, and Pierre-Stéphane Fort, director of the investigation broadcast on France 2 in Complément d’Enquête.
In the details of the investigation carried out by the Investigation cell of Radio France, and the magazine Complément d’Enquête of France 2, a lunch at the Elysée in 2010 would have was instrumental in awarding the competition to the Gulf countries. Around the table: Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic, Michel Platini, President of UEFA, and the Crown Prince of Qatar, Tamim Ben Hamad Al Thani (among others). So, what was said during this lunch? How was this World Cup negotiated in Qatar?
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