A dozen activists from the Communist Party’s youth movement unfurled a giant T-shirt in front of the French Football Federation (FFF) in Paris on Tuesday to “denounce his complicit silenceon the organization of the World Cup in Qatar and the plight of migrant workers. They attempted to hang their six-by-ten-meter black banner on the facade of a building opposite the Federation, before lowering it to the street so that it could be read.
«Qatar 2022, FFF complicit silence and #PayUpFifa“, could we read on the giant T-shirt, a hashtag referring to a campaign of NGOs which ask Fifa to compensate the families of the workers who died on the construction sites of the World Cup, scheduled from November 20 to 18 december. The secretary general of the Young Communists (JC) Léon Deffontaines called for the resignation of the president of the French Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët, accusing him of his “complicit silence». «It’s the cup of shame“, and “environmental and social scandal“, he said. “Give us back football, we need popular appropriation of sport and control over the attribution of such an event“Explained to AFP Jeanne Péchon, a communist activist.
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