After Paris on Monday, La Courneuve announced on Tuesday that it will not celebrate the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Gilles Poux, the mayor of the city of Seine-Saint-Denis, published a press release in the afternoon.
“A caricature of the abuses caused by the law of money…”
He explains that “this World Cup is a caricature of the abuses caused by the law of money in our societies. The choice of the host country is not exempt from suspicion on the conditions in which it took place…“.
The mayor of La Courneuve also mentions ” the exploitation of thousands of immigrant employees in defiance of international law, which has led to an exorbitant number of work accidents with dramatic human consequences and by an abundance of means to build air-conditioned stadiums in the middle of the desert in defiance of the planet“.
A “masquerade” that La Courneuve does not endorse
Gilles Poux also describes the event as “masquerade“stating that”the City of La Courneuve will not endorse this event and will not organize public broadcasts“.