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Paris has joined a number of French cities in asserting they won’t present World Cup matches in public locations or arrange “fan zones” in protest at human rights and environmental abuses within the host nation, Qatar. The strikes to boycott the competitors subsequent month come after what has been described as a “final minute disaster of conscience” by the general public authorities. Native authorities in Marseille, Lille, Bordeaux, Reims, Nancy, Rodez and the capital have introduced they won’t set up big tv screens as previously to relay matches. “This competitors has progressively become a human and environmental catastrophe, incompatible with the values we wish to see conveyed by sport and particularly soccer,” Benoît Payan, the mayor of Marseille and head of a leftwing and environmentalist coalition, stated in an announcement. In Lille, the town council unanimously voted to not broadcast World Cup matches. The town’s Socialist mayor, Martine Aubry, stated holding the competitors in Qatar was “a nonsense by way of human rights, the setting and sport”. In Paris, Pierre Rabadan, a former French rugby worldwide and the deputy answerable for sport at metropolis corridor, stated there was “no query” of putting in fan zones.…