In yellow the traffic cops, in green and black the explosives experts, in duck blue the marshals in the field. At the beginning of October, the Qatari national committee in charge of safety and security operations unveiled with great fanfare the uniforms worn by the eleven trades that will provide security throughout the FIFA World Cup which will begin on November 20 and end on December 18, 2022.
A color code that could be useful in identifying local security personnel among the many foreign contingents who have responded to Doha’s call for military support and logistical expertise during the 28-day long-awaited event .
The first Arab country to host the World Cup, the small Gulf emirate is preparing to meet a major challenge by welcoming 1.5 million visitors, out of a total population of 2.9 million inhabitants, of which only 10% of natives.
Safe arsenal
“It’s probably going to be the most secure World Cup in history,” says Andreas Krieg, professor in the Department of Defense Studies at King’s College London, citing the “massive deployment of security personnel on the ground, at sea and in the air”, and a “technological device comprising sensors, cameras and drones”.
Faced with the challenges represented by the maintenance of order, the prevention of cyberattacks or the terrorist threat, Qatar has indeed
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Fortunately, these dire predictions did not come true. Not only thanks to the return to the country in the 1990s of thousands of French-speaking families fleeing an Africa torn by wars or a Europe in the grip of the economic crisis, but thanks to a real editorial dynamism and the arrival of a new generation of journalists who use a lively and hard-hitting French without preciosity, trickery, or conspicuous self-censorship… And it is no exaggeration to affirm that The Orient-The Day is today the most interesting Lebanese daily and one of the best in the Arab world.
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