Qatar confessed the death of hundreds of workers in 2022 World Cup projects!

Qatar confessed the death of hundreds of workers in 2022 World Cup projects!

The President of the Qatar World Cup 2022, Hassan Al-Thawadi, admitted, in statements to the famous British broadcaster Piers Morgan, that between 400 and 500 expatriate workers died in projects that were completed related to the tournament.

Al-Thawadi was asked about the number of deaths among migrant workers as a result of the work done in the tournament, and he said, “It is estimated that between 400 and 500 died. This is something that has been discussed, and the death of one means the death of many.”

“I think the health and safety standards on the sites are improving every year, at least on our sites, the World Cup sites that we have been responsible for,” Al-Thawadi added.

Morgan asked whether the health and safety standards were good enough at the start of the project, and Al Thawadi replied: “I think in general the need to reform the work itself dictates saying yes, and there must be improvements.”

“Just to be clear, this was something we realized before we made the bid, the improvements that were made weren’t because of the World Cup, we knew we had to make those improvements because of our own values,” he explained.

He said, “The World Cup was a means, an accelerator and a catalyst because of the spotlight that we realized early on would be shed. It caused a lot of initiatives not only in terms of achieving improvement, but in terms of its implementation as well.”

Al-Thawadi concluded by saying: “And here we have come today to a situation in which our biggest critics consider us the most applicable standards in the region.”

And the British newspaper “The Guardian” reported last year that 6,500 migrant workers from South Asia have died in Qatar since the country obtained in 2010 the right to organize the World Cup in 2022, and most of these workers were doing dangerous and low-paid work, and it is often done. in very hot conditions.