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12:22 p.m. : Gérald Darmanin will represent France at the opening ceremony of the World Cup tomorrow in Doha, announces the Ministry of the Interior. According to the latter, he will occasionally visit the French police and gendarmes sent there, as part of a much commented agreement between France and Qatar on the security of the event.
12:09 : Let’s take stock of the main news of this Saturday:
Last day under high tension at COP27: the number 2 of the European Commission threatens not to sign the final agreement of the summit, fearing that it will abandon the objective of limiting global warming to 1.5°C at the end of end of the century. The Minister for Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher also expressed her concern.
• On the eve of the opening of a highly criticized World Cup, FIFA President Gianni Infantino denounced the “moral lessons” with regard to Qatar.
• Demonstrations are expected in several cities in France to denounce the dysfunctions of justice in the fight against sexist and sexual violence.
11:40 a.m. : It was almost 12 years ago, on the platform of the Zurich congress centre. Sepp Blatter opened the envelope and read into the microphone with his pronounced Swiss accent: “Qatarrrrrr”. The small emirate won the organization of the World Cup to everyone’s surprise. I tell you, testimony of actors in support, this day of fools in my article.
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10:59 : The Teamon the other hand, highlights his favorite for this World Cup: Neymar’s Brazil, “in full confidence” and spared from injury.
10:54 : On the eve of the opening match, the World Cup is on the front page of many national and regional newspapers. Unsurprisingly, it is less about football than criticism around its organization in Qatar.
10:24 a.m. : The President of Fifa has finally swept aside criticism of the ban on alcohol around stadiums, announced yesterday two days before the start of the competition: “I personally think you can survive without drinking beer for three hours”replied Gianni Infantino.
10:22 : Gianni Infantino began his speech with a surprising anaphora: “Today I feel Qatari, today I feel Arab, today I feel African, today I feel gay, today I feel disabled, today I feel migrant worker “. The fate of foreign workers in Qatar, denounced by NGOs, the “refers to his personal history” sons of Italian immigrants in Switzerland, “discriminated against because I was redheaded”.
10:20 a.m. : “These biased moral lessons are just hypocrisy. For everything we Europeans have done for 3,000 years, we should apologize for the next 3,000 years before we start giving people moral lessons. “
The president of Fifa defended the organization of the World Cup in Qatar during a press conference, even ensuring that it had made it possible to improve the condition of migrant workers in the country. “Why is no one acknowledging this progress?”he wondered.