The Argentine journalist Dominique Metzger is the protagonist of one of the most unusual episodes of the World Cup. working for him All the news, Metzger was mugged while performing a concert. But what surprised her was that the police left the sentence to apply to the offender in her hands, which she assured she would find.
“I was dancing [durante a reportagem] with the crowd and I am convinced that the robbery occurred at that moment,” she was quoted as saying by the newspaper El Español, stressing that she had not noticed the robbery and that he only realized he didn’t have his wallet when he wanted to buy a bottle of water???????? The journalist also explained that the police advised her to file a complaint at a police station, assuring that “everything is under surveillance” and, therefore, they would eventually find the wallet with documents, money and cards.
It was then that the episode occurred that left her stunned. “At one point, the police told me: ‘What do you want justice to do about it? Let’s find the wallet. We have high-tech cameras everywhere,’” she said, admitting that he thought he was misinterpreting the translation.
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However, it was not a mistake and the Qatari police authorities really wanted to know what Dominique Metzger expected to do justice to whoever was arrested for the theft. “They kept asking me what penalty he wanted for the thief, if he wanted to be sentenced to five years in prison, he should be deported…”, he reported, noting that the police told him that he “could choose” the sanction to be applied. “I got goosebumps,” she confessed, quoted by the same Spanish newspaper.
The journalist then tried to explain that she was only there for the stolen things to appear. “I did not want to put myself in the shoes of Justice,” she concluded.
For the first time in the history of the World Cups, the 8 stadiums where the competition takes place are within a radius of 70 km, according to EFE. A proximity that allowed the Qatari government to create a security plan that includes 15 thousand cameras video surveillance and artificial intelligence.
Source: Observadora
