2023-05-20 15:57:41
The Iraq national under-20 team, engaged in the World Cup in Argentina, has been the subject of a police report for alleged “acts of vandalism” and sexual assault in its hotel, according to a police report.
A police officer in charge of security with the Iraqi selection collected the testimony of a young employee of the hotel restaurant, affirming that members of the Iraqi delegation “touched an intimate part of her body” on the evening of Thursday, it is reported in a bulletin of the police of La Plata (60 km from Buenos Aires) published Friday in several Argentine media. The young woman, according to the report, did not wish to file a complaint or give her identity.
The manager of the reception of the hotel, also heard by the Argentine policeman, for his part testified that members of the Iraqi team who “walked in their underwear in the corridors of the hotel, deliberately activated the system fire alarm”. So many behaviors “never seen in the hotel”, according to him.
A site security officer, quoted in the report, indicates that members of the delegation also “ill-treated a local interpreter”, and “put a hotel elevator out of order, using it in overload “.
The Iraqi federation denies
According to the police report, the head of the Iraqi delegation Mohammed Naser Sharkrown al-Mansoori was formally informed of the facts via an interpreter, and the local head of the Organizing Committee for the Argentine Federation (AFA), host of the World Cup, requested a full investigation.
The hotel, contacted by AFP, declined to comment. The Iraqi Federation has denied on its Telegram account “the inaccurate information circulating and the rumors (…) concerning the problems at the residence of our team. »
The Under-20 World Cup, which begins on Saturday, pits 24 selections against each other until June 11. Initially planned in Indonesia, it was relocated last month to Argentina by the International Federation (Fifa), which decided to withdraw the organization from Indonesia following the refusal of two provincial governors to welcome the Israeli team. .
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