Colau won’t surrender areas to see the World Cup in Barcelona as a result of Qatar “is a dictatorship”

The Mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colauhas rejected the likelihood that the consistory cede municipal areas to look at matches of the World Cup Qatar 2022 as a result of the nation “is a dictatorship that violates human rights” and authorizing it could be “being complicit,” he mentioned.

Within the municipal plenary session in October, the mayor rejected a request from the Ciutadans group that requested the town council to surrender areas to comply with the matches of the Spanish choice within the last section of the World Cup.

Though he has expressed his assist for the holding of sports activities competitions such because the World Cup and the switch of areas to comply with finals, as has been completed on earlier events, Colau has refused “to make public assets or public house accessible to comply with a World Cup what is finished in a dictatorship”.

Criticism of FIFA

“It’s a mistake to prepare a world sporting occasion, which has to advertise the values ​​of democracy, peace and human rights, in a dictatorship,” added Colau, who has additionally charged FIFA for being “an confederate in a dictatorship just like the one in Qatar”.

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Alongside the identical traces, the primary deputy mayor, James CollboniHe has additionally expressed his rejection of the World Cup and has charged in opposition to the president of the fifawho yesterday mentioned that the World Cup is a chance for the Arab nation “to eliminate prejudices”.

“What the FIFA president calls prejudice is a violation of human rights, persecution of the LGTBI group and discrimination in opposition to ladies. The World Cup can’t be an excuse to whitewash the dictatorship,” he mentioned in a message on his Twitter account.