Amélie Oudéa Castéra bangs her fist on the table of the French Football Federation.

The Minister of Sports asked the FFF to provide her with evidence of its action concerning human rights during the World Cup in Qatar in a letter consulted on Wednesday.

This missive details in particular the different areas on which the audit mission will focus on the body that the Minister entrusted to the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research on September 16 after receiving the president of the FFF Noël Le Graët and its general manager, Florence Hardouin.

The FFF in turmoil

This mission, "which will be linked in the next few days" with Noël Le Graët "to organize the first meetings", follows the publication in the magazine

So Foot

of an article questioning the FFF and its president. , accused of having sent text messages of a sexual nature to employees.

A defamation complaint has since been filed by the FFF.

But in this letter, the minister also addresses the World Cup to be held in Qatar from November 20 to December 18.

She recalls that she had "insisted" during a meeting with the deputy vice-president of the FFF, Philippe Diallo, that the Federation "quickly take measures to ensure that the participation of our French team in the World Cup in Qatar can take place while respecting our values ​​relating to human rights and ecological transition".

Amnesty castigates the "deafening silence" of the Blues

If the minister explains that she "noted" the press release of September 23 in which the FFF "highlights" several steps taken, she asks the body "to kindly inform (him) of (his) progress" on these "issues".

"On the point relating to the verification of working conditions at the base camp of the France team in particular, I ask you to let me know, as of now, the concrete initiatives that you have taken and you will also communicate to me , when the time comes, the results of the next on-site visits, ”she writes.

On Tuesday, Philippe Diallo assured that the body was working with several other federations on a compensation fund for victims of accidents at work on World Cup sites.

In an open letter published two days before Denmark-France on September 25, in Copenhagen, Amnesty International had regretted the "deafening silence" of the Blues "in the face of the thousands of migrant workers who died on Qatari construction sites, and the thousands of others subjected to forced labor ".

The question of the rights of migrant workers in Qatar has been regularly raised by NGOs since the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to the rich Gulf gas state in 2010.

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