The Danish journalist Rasmus Tantholdt is one of the many professionals who are already in or who are traveling to Qatar to tell first-hand everything that happens in the 2022 World Cup, one of the most controversial in history. So much so that before the initial whistle this Sunday, there has already been a first brawl.
Specifically, this journalist and his team have been threatened by the country's authorities, who have threatened to destroy their camera while broadcasting from a public square. Why can't we record? It is a public place”, the Danish journalist questioned the three security guards who were traveling in a golf cart.
“Sir, you invited all of us to come here. Why can't we do it?" the journalist insisted while one of them tried to break the camera. Such was the situation that even the reporter suggested that he do it. “You can break the camera. Do you want to break the camera?
However, they ended up leaving the place and soon the International Media Office of Qatar and the Supreme Committee of the country issued "an apology". This was stated by Tantholdt a posteriori through a message on Twitter in which he denounced what happened.
Not only that. After other journalists and networks had echoed the situation, the Norwegian outlet NRK decided to interview the journalist, who denounced that this act "says a lot about what Qatar is like."
“They can attack and threaten you when you report as a free media. This is not a free and democratic country," criticized the professional, who recalled something that his "experience after visiting 110 countries in the world has taught him is: the more you have to hide, the more difficult it is to report from there."
