“The conditions are not met for the France team to go to Qatar”, says Corbière

The deputy of La France Insoumise Alexis Corbière was the guest of the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1 / CNews / Les Échos. Questioned by Sonia Mabrouk on the question of “double standards concerning the World Cup in Qatar when the French are asked to lower the degrees in the house”, the deputy was clear: “The conditions are not not met for our French team to go to this event, it’s an ecological scandal in one of the hottest countries on the planet”, he protests.

“It’s time for mouths to open”

Scheduled for next November, the conditions under which this World Cup will take place raise questions. “64 matches are scheduled in air-conditioned open-air stadiums. Social conditions are not met, I do not accept that people say that at least 65,000 workers are dead and that we learn that unpaid workers have been expelled. Democratically, Qatar is a reactionary regime. Out of 146 countries, it is ranked 127th,” insisted Alexis Corbière. “A year ago, I wrote to the Minister of Sports to draw her attention and she told me that France was attentive to the problem. Since then nothing has progressed. It is time for mouths to open It must be up to the sports authorities, the minister or the athletes to get people talking about them,” he said.

“I saw that Mr. MBappé had conditioned his image to brands that he did not accept and he did not want to be the support of something that is going in the wrong direction, do the same with this world team in Qatar “, he launches. “If the World Cup had taken place in Russia, we would have said ‘we are not going there to protest against what is taking place’. You are told ‘the planet is on fire’ and we are going to applaud in stadiums with the sky open in Qatar. We’re walking on our heads!” he chanted. “Sport must have educational virtues. Let the athletes speak up, say that you will not go to a country where the conditions of the World Cup are accelerating the ecological, social, democratic crisis…”