In full "malaise" around the World Athletics in Qatar, the deputy Génération.s Régis Juanico and the Mayor of Bourg-en-Bresse Jean-François Debat (PS) call the Bleus Didier Deschamps not to "go" to World 2022 football in the emirate (on the assumption that they would qualify), in a tribune at Le Monde on Thursday.
"We do not have any illusions, we suspect that the boycott will be complicated, but we want to stimulate debate and that the authorities become aware of what is intolerable in ecological, social or simply on the lack of respect for the athletes, "said Régis Juanico, elected of the Loire. "There is a real discomfort at the Athletics Worlds It hurts the heart The organization is catastrophic, the stadiums are empty and the physical integrity of the athletes is endangered by the heat," said the deputy relative PS, himself a discuster and hammer thrower, and at the head of the parliamentary athletics association.
"Corruption" and "greed" around the attribution of the Mondial
In their platform, the two elected denounce the "corruption" and "greed" around the award of the World Cup in Qatar in 2022. They attack the "near slavery" of migrant workers and the "waste" ecological caused by air-conditioned stadiums. The World Athletics Championships in Doha (27 September - 6 October) have sparked controversy among athletes due to the heat and lack of affluence. "We all see that it is a disaster," said French Kevin Mayer, world record holder of the decathlon.
In football, before the 2018 World Cup in Russia, environmentalists MEPs had called for a diplomatic boycott of the competition not to "encourage the authoritarian and anti-Western position" of President Vladimir Putin, without being really followed. Only Great Britain, followed to varying degrees by Iceland, Poland, Sweden and Denmark, had boycotted the competition diplomatically, refusing to send officials to denounce poisoning in the United Kingdom. former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter.