Las controversial in the World Cup in Qatar 2022 around the rainbow symbology they continue. This time, the Qatari authorities have harassed a journalist by thinking that he was wearing a insignia of the LGTBI collectivethough it was really the flag of Pernambucoone of the states of Brazil.
It was the journalist himself, Victor Pereira, who has denounced the facts through his Twitter account. «They picked up the flag of Pernambuco, they threw her to the ground and stepped on her. Some people intervened and softened the situation, “she said.
We were approached because of the flag of Pernambuco, which has a rainbow and they thought it was the LGBT flag. They took my cell phone and only gave it back to me when I deleted the video I had. pic.twitter.com/7X2oal8bq1
— Victor Pereira (@ovictorpereira) November 22, 2022
In addition, the communicator has said that they also took away his cell phone. “They only returned it to me when I deleted the video I had,” she has indicated. However, some people who were around him recorded the scene and now the images have gone viral.
Controversies with the LGTBI flag
This is not the first conflict with the rainbow flag. Various European teams they tried to claim at the World Cup in Qatar wearing the bracelet with the colors of the LGTBI collective insignia to express solidarity. However, FIFA announced that the teams that participated in the campaign would be punished with yellow cards, so the federations decided to back down.
Denmarkfor his part, threatened to withdraw from the competition as a result of the ban. Germany also protested. It happened in the traditional photography prior to the initial whistle, when each team poses for posterity. On their side of the field, the German team did it with all the members of the starting eleven covering their mouths with their hands. The gesture could well be a representation of the gag that FIFA has imposed.
