Reporter Rasmus Tantholdt was talking reside to a newscaster in Denmark when three males got here up behind him in an electrical cart and tried to dam the digicam lens.

“You invited everybody to return right here. Why cannot we movie? It is a public place,” Tantholdt was heard saying in English.

“You may break the digicam. Do you need to break it? Are you threatening to interrupt the digicam?

The incident 5 days earlier than the beginning of the World Cup revisited a difficulty that has been delicate for match organizers who’ve denied claims there are strict limits on the place the media can movie in Qatar.

Qatari organizers mentioned they then spoke to Tantholdt and in addition “issued a discover to all entities to abide by the filming permits in place for the match.”

Denmark’s soccer federation has additionally been one of many largest critics of Qatar among the many 32 World Cup groups for the emirate’s file on human rights, together with its therapy of low-paid migrant staff.

They’ve been wanted to construct large building initiatives since FIFA selected Qatar as host in 2010.

The Danish gamers will put on sport shirts that includes a dimmed badge and the producers’ brand as a protest in help of labor rights after they play France, Australia and Tunisia in Group D.

A 3rd black jersey choice has been included as “the colour of mourning” for building staff who’ve died in Qatar.

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