The news went almost unnoticed on Monday, as the Strasbourg city council considered the restructuring and extension of the Meinau stadium.

Mayor EELV Jeanne Barseghian, indicated that "there are no plans for public, organized screenings concerning the World Cup" of football in Qatar.

A brief and slightly embarrassed answer to the question posed by the municipal councilor Dominique Mastelli (Faire ensemble Strasbourg).

The latter was worried about knowing "if a match of the France team would be broadcast on a giant screen in the fan zone" in the city.

Lovers of large outdoor popular gatherings, as was the case during the screening of the final in 2018 at the Deux Rives garden, get ready to receive your friends on your sofa or hope (almost) that France is not finally.

Could it be because it takes place in winter and there won't be the same atmosphere?

To save energy?

Or to participate in the global boycott movement targeting the host country?

“Strasbourg cannot close its eyes”

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, the mayor, Jeanne Barseghian, detailed her decision in writing and confirmed that the city will not broadcast the 2022 World Cup. “It is impossible for us not to hear the numerous alerts from NGOs which denounce the abuse and exploitation of immigrant workers.

Thousands of foreign workers died on the construction sites, it is unbearable, underlines the elected official.

Strasbourg, European capital, seat of the European Court of Human Rights, cannot decently condone this mistreatment, cannot turn a blind eye when human rights are flouted in this way.

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Concerns are also ecological: "While climate change is a palpable reality, with its fires, droughts, shortages and disasters, the organization of football world cups in a desert is all the more an aberration , an ecological disaster!

As the organization of the Winter Olympics in a country without snow was.

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The opportunity also for the environmentalist mayor to recall the climate issues that are currently being played out.

“While everyone now realizes that we live in a finite world, whose resources are not inexhaustible, sobriety cannot be variable geometry.

“Recalling the sixth report of the IPCC experts, “an unprecedented warning”, Jeanne Barseghian wants to get the message across: “We have three years to change the global trajectory.

We need to act fast and strong, together and at all levels for a viable future.

How can we ignore this warning, dispense with this imperative?

From now on, in the face of the climatic and humanitarian emergency, everyone must take their responsibilities.

Inconsistency is not an option.

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