Gianni Infantino lashes out in a bizarre speech at European nations for double standards on migrant workers.
| Gianni Infantino said he feels gay. That he feels like a woman. That he feels like a migrant worker. He lectured Europeans for criticising Qatar’s human rights record and defended the host country’s last-minute decision to ban beer from World Cup stadiums., and then spent about 45 minutes answering questions from the media about the Qatari government’s actions and a wide range of other topics.
“We in Europe, we close our borders and we don’t allow practically any worker from those countries, who earn obviously very low income, to work legally in our countries,” Infantino said. Under heavy international scrutiny, Qatar has enacted a number of labor reforms in recent years that have been praised by Equidem and other rights groups. But advocates say abuses are still widespread and that workers have few avenues for redress.Infantino, however, continued to hit the Qatari government’s talking points of turning criticism back onto the West.
A televised speech by Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on October 25 marked a turning point in the country’s approach to any criticism, claiming it had been “subjected to an unprecedented campaign that no host country has ever faced”.
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