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World Cup: Qatar expels thousands of foreign workers from Doha apartment complexes | Football news

Qatar has cleared apartment blocks housing thousands of foreign workers in the same areas in central Doha where visiting fans will be staying during the World Cup, workers was evicted from home.

They said more than a dozen buildings were evacuated and closed by authorities, forcing mainly Asian and African workers to seek possible shelter, including spreading beds on the sidewalks outside. outside one of their old houses.

The move, which comes three weeks before the tournament begins on 20 November, has drawn international scrutiny over Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers and its restrictive social rules. this country.

At a building where residents said there were 1,200 people in Doha’s Al Mansoura district, authorities told residents around 8 p.m. Wednesday that they had only two hours to leave.

City officials returned around 10:30 p.m., forcing people out and locking doors to the building, they said. Some of the men were unable to return in time to pack up their belongings.

“We have nowhere to go,” one man told Reuters the next day, as he prepared to sleep a second night with about 10 other men, some of them topless in a Hot and humid autumn of the Gulf Arab country. .

Lusail Stadium will host the Qatar 2022 World Cup final.
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More than a dozen buildings were evacuated and closed by the authorities ahead of the World Cup

He and most of the other workers who spoke to Reuters declined to give their names or personal details for fear of retribution by authorities or employers.

Nearby, five men were loading a mattress and a small refrigerator into the back of a pickup truck. They said they found a room in Sumaysimah, about 25 miles north of Doha.

A Qatari government official said the expulsions were unrelated to the World Cup and were designed “in line with ongoing comprehensive and long-term plans to reorganize areas of Doha”.

“All have since been reused in safe and appropriate accommodations,” the official said, adding that requests to move out “will be made with proper notice.” .

FIFA did not respond to a request for comment and Qatar’s World Cup organizers directed a government request.

Meanwhile, the city of Barcelona will not offer public venues to watch Spain’s matches at next month’s World Cup after the mayor said her city does not support hosting. tournament in a dictatorship.

Spanish news agency EFE reported that Barcelona mayor Ada Colau rejected a request by an opposition party, during a session of the city council on Friday, to open a public place for people to gather. practice and watch Spanish.

And elsewhere, Qatar has summoned the German ambassador over remarks by the German Interior Minister, who appeared to criticize the decision to award the World Cup to the Gulf Arab nation for its human rights record.




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