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Qatar World Cup organizers have apologized to a Danish TV station whose live broadcast on the streets of Doha was interrupted by officials who threatened to break the cameras.
The Supreme Delivery and Legacy Council acknowledged in a statement that a TV2 reporter was “wrongly interrupted” on Tuesday night.
“After checking the crew’s valid competition eligibility and filming permits, before the crew resumed activities, on-site security apologized to the broadcaster,” it said.
Journalist Rasmus Tantholdt was broadcasting live to a news anchor in Denmark when three men in a motorized cart followed him, trying to block the camera lens.
“You’ve got the whole world here, why can’t we do it? It’s a public space,” Tantholdt said in English.
“You can break the camera, do you want to break it? Threatening us by smashing the camera?”
The incident, which came five days before the start of the global football tournament, reignited a subject that has been sensitive for tournament organizers, who denied that media filming locations in Qatar were severely restricted.
Event directors said they later spoke to Tantholdt and “issued advice to all entities to respect the filming permissions established for the competition”.
The Danish FA has been one of Qatar’s biggest critics of the 32-team World Cup since FIFA chose Qatar as host in 2010, criticizing Qatar’s record on human rights and low-income migrants who work on large-scale construction projects .
Danish players will wear stripes with faded badges and manufacturers’ logos in protest in support of labor rights when they play against France, Australia and Tunisia in Group D.
A third option, black shirts, is listed as the “color of mourning” for construction workers killed in Qatar.
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