After the disappearance of four players from the Cameroon handball team in Spain, where they were for the Women’s World Cup, an Iranian player in turn evaporated into nature on the sidelines of the competition, said Wednesday the police. As for the Cameroonians, this disappearance, which occurred on Tuesday in the city of Valence, in eastern Spain, where the selection of Iran is based, is not considered “worrying” for the moment. because it is about a person of full age.
The Iranians, for their first World Cup (all team sports combined), are followed by a security agent in connection with General Intelligence, “to control them, prevent them from going out, prohibit them from speaking to certain media”. https://t.co/PHLYVEAbfl
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A complaint, said a spokeswoman for the local police, was filed by the Handball Federation of Iran, a country where women have a lower legal status than men and where they are discriminated against. all kinds. A security agent from the Ministry of Sports, in conjunction with the Iranian General Intelligence, accompanies the selection in Spain, “to control them, to prohibit them from speaking to certain foreign media, to prohibit them from going out, from partying”, Reza Mohaddes, journalist at Iran International told us a few days ago.
“As soon as a sportsman or woman leaves Iran for a competition, he is obliged to leave a very high deposit to force him to return to the country and avoid cases like the judoka Saeid Mollaei [médaillé d’argent à Tokyo sous les couleurs mongoles], he added. At the World Cup, handball players are in a kind of bubble. “