Our series on “the building sites of shame in Qatar”
It was December 2, 2010. In his hands, the president of Fifa, Sepp Blatter, holds in front of the camera a small piece of paper on which is written “Qatar”.
A very small country has just obtained the right to organize the biggest sporting event, the Football World Cup.
Since then, twelve years have passed and with a lot of controversy: to prepare for its World Cup and its multiple construction sites – stadiums, metro, infrastructure – Qatar has employed thousands of immigrant workers in terrible conditions.
A few days before kick-off, Le Parisien looks in five episodes at these “construction sites of shame”.
But how many deaths have there really been on the construction sites?
Without remains or compensation, the impossible mourning of the families of victims
The mysterious death of Englishman Zac Cox
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Since 2010, have working conditions changed for migrants?
He is one of three workers officially dead on the construction sites of the World Cup stadiums in Qatar.
Zac Cox was a specialist in construction works, on large infrastructures.
In January 2017, alongside his colleagues, he tried to install a footbridge at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha.
The 40-year-old man then falls from a height of forty meters.
Brain damage, broken neck… No chance of surviving such a fall.
The enclosure will host, on November 21, the first match of the England team, his adopted nation.
Born in South Africa, Cox had spent his entire life between Brighton and London.
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