Less than 24 hours before the World Cup final, which will face France against Argentina, Emmanuel Macron has already flown this Saturday, around 3:00 p.m., aboard the presidential plane to Qatar, to attend it. The departure has been brought forward because the president wants to “maximize the importance of his trip there”, we learned from Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
The Minister of Sports is on the plane, together with several athletes: the player Christopher Nkunku, the international referee Stéphanie Frappart, the former international Alain Giresse, the former boxer Brahim Asloum, the former professional and journalist Laure Boulleau, the former international Bruno Cheyrou and judoka Teddy Riner. Paul Pogba, Ngolo Kante and Luis Fernández are also part of this delegation but they are not traveling on the presidential plane.
Brigitte Macron with two young people from ASE
The three are already As for Karim Benzema, if his presence had been considered, a schedule incompatibility prevented him from going to Qatar with the presidential delegation.
Among the non-athletic guests on board the plane are Brigitte Macron, a boy and a girl aged 18 and 19, football fans and beneficiaries of Child Social Assistance (ASE) with its director of establishment in Cergy (Val- d’Oise), but also a member of the special forces, injured in an operation in the Sahel.
Second trip in three days
At the venue, Emmanuel Macron will meet the Emir of Qatar and Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, before the final. However, there will be no informal summit with foreign leaders and the emir, as mentioned in Brussels, nor an invitation to Qatar’s national holiday.
Emmanuel Macron will travel to Doha for the second time in three days, after having already attended the semifinal against Morocco on Wednesday, despite the many controversies over the World Cup and the alleged involvement of the emirate in a corruption scandal in the European Parliament.
The opposition strongly criticized his first trip and his comments about the good organization of the event by Qatar, accusing him of not taking into account the environmental and human impact of the competition.
Source: BFM TV
