The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, This Friday the consistory rejected the possibility of giving municipal spaces to watch Qatar 2022 World Cup matches because the country “it is a dictatorship which violates human rights” and this authorization “be partners in crime“, it said.
At the municipal plenary session last October, the mayor rejected the request of the Cs group that asked that question the city council provided spaces to follow the matches of the Spanish team in the final stages of the World Cup.
Although he expressed his support for the holding of sports competitions such as the World Cup and the transfer of slots to follow the finals, as was done on previous occasions, Colau rejected “place public resources or public spaces available to follow a World Cup taking place in a dictatorship“.
“This is mistake organize an international sporting event, which has to promote the values of democracyof peace and human rights, in a dictatorship“, added Colau, who also filed against the FIFA for being”accomplice of a dictatorship like that of Qatar”.
In the same line, the first deputy mayor, James Colbonialso expressed his rejection of the World Cup and charged the president of FIFA, who said yesterday that the World Cup is an opportunity for the Arab country “to eliminate prejudices”.
“The so-called prejudice of the FIFA president is violation of human rights, persecution of the LGTBI collective and discrimination against women. The World Cup cannot be an excuse to whitewash the dictatorship,” he said in a message on his Twitter account.
Source: La Verdad
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