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
Vinci, Bouygues, Accor… What French companies are accused of
Since 2010, have working conditions changed for migrants?
There is a form of fascination with statistics in today's football.
A love of figures to the decimal point, which pushes each year to the emergence of models, each one more precise and more predictive than the previous one, making it possible to analyze a little more in depth the things that are happening on the ground.
But when this concern for numbers escapes the green rectangle, it's rarely a good sign.
And the quest for the most precise figure immediately becomes a little more difficult.
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