Reporter covering 2022 FIFA World Cup robbed live on air; Money and Documents stolen
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While reporting from Qatar for the FIFA World Cup, a reporter was robbed live on television. Dominique Metzger was conducting a live stream from Doha’s Corniche while reporting the event for Argentine channel TN. Metzger’s handbag, which included cash, credit cards, and other papers, was broken into while she was filing the complaint.
She then reported the theft to the police and shared her experience with her 261,000 followers on her Instagram story. The robbery wasn’t violent; instead, he or she operated stealthily and ruthlessly. When she pulled out her wallet to buy a drink, she realized what she had done.
Dominique told her followers “Don’t worry, I’m fine, I went through a situation that we talk about all the time: the different thing is that it happened here, which they say is the safest place. We were here, in this beautiful place, but a few hours ago it was full of people. It was a theft, it was not violent at all.”
The most expensive FIFA World Cup in history
The world will finally get to see the results of one of the biggest capital campaigns in human history on Sunday night, when Qatar takes the field against Ecuador in the opening game of the 2022 World Cup, which will be mid-morning for American viewers.
In order to get the small Middle Eastern country ready to host the biggest athletic event in history, Qatar’s minister of finance claimed in 2017 that the country was spending $500 million each week on infrastructure projects, including improvements to roads, hotels, stadiums, and airports. The cost of the World Cup will be by far the highest in history. Since being selected to host the 2022 World Cup in late 2010, Qatar is thought to have spent close to $220 billion.
Due to the hundreds, possibly even thousands, of workers—many of them foreigners—who lost their lives while laboring in hazardous conditions for meager pay to keep the large projects moving forward, the nation has come under increasing criticism.
It is still unknown whether the “bold risk” Qatar urged FIFA to take by granting the country the right to host will be profitable for the body or the host nation. Sepp Blatter, a former FIFA president, stated last week that it was “a poor idea” to allow Qatar to host.
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