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Michel Platini arrested: Former Uefa president taken into custody over awarding 2022 Fifa World Cup to Qatar
Former France captain has been detained in Paris as part of the investigation into alleged corruption into how Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup

Jack de Menezes @JackdeMenezes
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Michel Platini, the former president of Uefa and head of European football, has been arrested over the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

The former France international captain was detained by French police on Tuesday morning in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris, as part of the investigation into corruption surrounding how the 2022 World Cup hosting rights were awarded, according to French investigative outlet Mediapart.

The 63-year-old was Uefa president from January 2007 – when he replaced the late Lennart Johansson – until he stepped down in 2015 after being banned from football for six year, which was later reduced to four after appealing the sanction to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

That ban expired in March this year, but investigators leading the fight against corruption within football have arrested him on suspicion of corruption as part of the case looking into how Qatar won the right to host the next World Cup.

Platini was taken into the Anti-Corruption Office of the Juducial Police (OCLCIFF) on Tuesday morning for questioning.

 

He was on the 1998 Fifa World Cup organising committee, and joined the Fifa executive committee in 2002 until he received his ban.

Qatar was controversially awarded the right to host the 2022 World Cup in 2010, which was announced at the same time as Russia winning the right to stage the 2018 tournament. In 2014, Platini admitted holding a meeting in secret with disgraced former football official Mohamaed Bin Hammam days before casting his vote for Qatar, with the ex-Asian Football Confederation subsequently banned from football for life following an expose by the Sunday Times.

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An investigation by The Telegraph into Platini and Bin Hammam’s relationship claimed that the pair met “between 30 and 50 times” while serving on Fifa’s executive committee.

Platini and Sepp Blatter, the disgraced former Fifa president who was at helm of football’s world governing body when Russia and Qatar won their respective World Cup hosting rights, were both cleared of corruption charges in 2015, but were found guilty of a series of regulation breaches that included conflict of interest and dereliction of duty when a 2m Swiss francs (£1.35m) “disloyal payment” from Blatter to Platini in 2011 was discovered. Both were handed long bans from all football-related activities.

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Platini was arrested by French anti-corruption police in Paris on Tuesday (Getty)
The report also claims that Claude Gueant, who formerly advised ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy as Secretary General, has also been taken in for questioning but has not been arrested.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/michel-platini-arrested-fifa-world-cup-2022-qatar-host-detained-former-uefa-president-a8963146.html

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There is no way FIFA are going to move this World Cup. All the investment that has been made, the tragedy of the migrant workers as well as moving it to winter. FIFA will want to save face and press ahead with it no matter what.

 

Plus oil money and corruption run deep at FIFA, its like Hydra, cut off one head 3 more will take its place.

 

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Qatar has spent Dh3.3 billion on 40 stadiums in its race to be ready for the 2022 Fifa World Cup but the migrant workers building them are being paid just Dh3.8 an hour, it has been revealed.

More than 1,400 migrants have died since work commenced due to poor conditions and human rights groups forecast the death toll could rise to 4,000 by 2022.

Now, Nepal and the Philippines took united action last week in a bid to protect their citizens against abuses.

It comes after Qatar’s sports minister apologised for the deaths earlier this month.

Chair of the Philippine Commission on Human Rights Chito Gascon said: "Ultimately, there was a commitment on the part of Qatar that they will abide by international labour standards and the only way by which we can ensure that is to surface the issues.

"That's why we need to work very closely with our respective embassies there to make sure that any issues involving labour rights will be quickly addressed by the Qatar government."

Despite mounting international pressure, Qatar’s assurances it was addressing issues of poor living conditions, wages and hazardous working environments have not been matched by action.

An investigation by German broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR) last month revealed conditions are still substandard with workers living without money or food, in cramped spaces and prison-like conditions.

In a video, Nepali migrants reveal they have not been paid for over six months, have had their passports confiscated and are without food and shelter.

One of the Nepali workers interviewed in the film, Dil Prasad, said: “Every day, we only eat bread and drink water; without money, we can’t afford anything else. Month after month, our situation is getting worse.

“I can’t do it anymore. I just want to go home. I can’t even call my family in Nepal. If only the company would pay us the money we deserve.”

Qatar’s kafala sponsorship system has given construction agencies recruiting migrants control over many aspects of workers’ lives, including the power to stop them leaving the country.

Over 18 months ago, Qatar signed up to an international agreement to introduce reforms including a minimum wage, allowing people to leave the country and health and safety measures. Evidence suggests the agreement is not being enforced.

The country’s sports minister admitted this month he did not know when wages would be increased.

Speaking in Paris earlier this month at Fifa’s ruling council, Hassan Al Thawadi, Qatar’s Secretary General of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, said: “There’s no doubt that every death is a tragedy, it’s as simple as that.

“While progress has been made in the state of Qatar there is still a long way to go.

“We are working very hard with [non-governmental organisations], medical institutions, trade unions and universities to do everything we can to address these issues.

“I can’t speak on the time [it has taken], I can speak about the progress that has been made. As I said, in relation to death, no matter what we say, it’s never going to be enough. But we are doing everything we can and we are making sure that whatever solutions we put in, aren’t just solutions for while we’re under the spotlight but solutions that remain beyond 2022.”

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Qatar has a migrant labour force of over 2 million, accounting for 95 per cent of its total labour force. Some 30,000 migrants are involved in its stadium projects

In its latest report into conditions,Qatar revealed there have also been a number of non-work-related deaths among young migrant men in the last year.

Nicholas McGeehan, an expert on workers’ rights in the Middle East, told the The Independent newspaper: “These deaths are from only the Supreme Committee’s World Cup workers, a tiny proportion of the Qatar migrant workforce.

“It is unsafe to work in those conditions without very substantial safeguards, and the Qataris should have independently investigated the health risks and put those protections in place.”

The Nepalese government says 1,426 of its migrant workers have died in Qatar since the Gulf state was awarded the World Cup in 2010.

There are over 400,000 Nepali and 260,000 Filipino migrant workers in Qatar.

On Thursday, the Philippine Commission on Human Rights and Nepal's National Human Rights Commission vowed to cooperate to protect migrant workers' rights.

Currently unpaid migrant workers in Qatar are forced to lodge claims with the country’s Department of Labour.

Barun Ghimire, a Nepal-based human rights activist and lawyer, said a lack of transparency is allowing subcontractors to escape accountability.

A number of bereaved families claim they have not received compensation following the deaths of relatives in Qatar.

“There have been reports that many Nepali workers have died either in the construction of stadiums or something related to stadiums in Qatar,” Mr Ghimire told Arab News.

“We tried to establish a case against employers, but they are difficult to investigate because of the chain [of] brokers involved in recruiting the workers.

“I have also found that there is no proper documentation for Nepali workers. As a result, it’s not easy to establish the culpability of the company. It is difficult to establish the accountability of the companies involved in the preparation of the Fifa World Cup. A lack of transparency in the recruitment process allows companies to escape litigation.”

Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy has committed to building seven new stadiums in Qatar, improving three others and has built a further 28 in the Middle East and Asia as part of its Generation Amazing initiative to promote grassroots talent.

 

https://www.thenational.ae/world/gcc/qatar-world-cup-labourers-paid-a-pittance-1.877945

 

 

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Not going to quote the above because it’s huge... but WOW!

 

Even with all of the claims made above, I’d imagine that’s only scratching the surface. 

 

The lowpaid/unpaid work is borderline slavery, but denying them the ability to leave takes it well beyond that line. 

 

This World Cup has been tarnished long before it’s begun. 

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36 minutes ago, Leeds Fox said:

Not going to quote the above because it’s huge... but WOW!

 

Even with all of the claims made above, I’d imagine that’s only scratching the surface. 

 

The lowpaid/unpaid work is borderline slavery, but denying them the ability to leave takes it well beyond that line. 

 

This World Cup has been tarnished long before it’s begun. 

Where's the outcry from Human Rights organizations? Where's the resistance? Where are the demands for justice? Where are the protests?

 

Tumbleweed...

 

Meanwhile, let the kids protest against Cilmate Change...

(Sorry, had to sneak that one in)

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2 hours ago, MC Prussian said:

Where's the outcry from Human Rights organizations? Where's the resistance? Where are the demands for justice? Where are the protests?

 

Tumbleweed...

 

Meanwhile, let the kids protest against Cilmate Change...

(Sorry, had to sneak that one in)

 

I’ll get some banners knocked up now Pruss. Where are we marching? 

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9 minutes ago, Leeds Fox said:

I’ll get some banners knocked up now Pruss. Where are we marching? 

Protest march to Doha.

Should we make it past Syria or Saudi Arabia. lol

 

Other than that, hunger strike in front of the Qatari embassy in London. Mayfair, here we come! :ph34r: 

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What would happen if Qatar were stripped of the right to host?

 

Few countries could host at short notice, apart from those who already have such as Russia or Brazil, or those who soon will such as the US.

 

That would mean either a European World Cup in England, Spain or Germany: undoubtedly the best equipped to do so at short notice, but would run counter to the 'new frontiers' notions.

 

My money would probably be on either Japan, who will also host major sporting tournaments in 2019 and 2020, or Australia.

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3 hours ago, Bilo said:

What would happen if Qatar were stripped of the right to host?

 

Few countries could host at short notice, apart from those who already have such as Russia or Brazil, or those who soon will such as the US.

 

That would mean either a European World Cup in England, Spain or Germany: undoubtedly the best equipped to do so at short notice, but would run counter to the 'new frontiers' notions.

 

My money would probably be on either Japan, who will also host major sporting tournaments in 2019 and 2020, or Australia.

No way Australia would be able to host a World Cup at short notice. Most of the large stadiums here are used for Rugby/AFL and even in the off season for those sports. Oct  - May the stadiums are long booked out for cricket.

Australia has very few purpose designed stadiums for football, the size of an AFL oval makes the large stadiums such as the MCG terrible for watching football.

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On 13/06/2019 at 02:21, Jattdogg said:

Fifa should be ashamed of themselves for sticking with qatar. The world should be ashamed for turning  a blind eye. India, nepal and others should ban citizens from travelling to qatar.

India does alot worse to its own mate, Qatar is more safer for non majority

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2 hours ago, Dr The Singh said:

India does alot worse to its own mate, Qatar is more safer for non majority

Well neither are great places when you really think about it but still doesnt seem like its safe for migrant workers at all. 

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Colombia were due to host in 1986, and then pulled out as they simply couldn't afford it.

 

I believe that the bidding process was reopened, with Mexico the sole bidder. The likelihood is, if it were taken away from Qatar, that the process would be restarted with fewer entrants. The eyes of the world would be on that one.

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4 hours ago, ozleicester said:

less than 3 years to put it together... nope that world cup aint moving

I'd imagine feelers would have been put out to see who thinks they'd be able to do it. I imagine a fair few FA's are keeping their eye on the situation and have a potential solution if needed.

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