Between the Hundreds of Argentines who are currently in Qatar waiting for the World Cup to start There are several journalists and communicators who traveled to cover the minute by minute of the previous one.
Dominique Metzger is one of them and, despite the fact that he is living an unforgettable experience, the last hours were marred by a very bad moment.
While broadcasting live from Doha, the Qatari capital, after 8:30 p.m. local time, he was the victim of a robbery. “Well, Qatari experiences. My wallet just got robbed when we were doing the live start. This is the police, they sent me here to file a complaint,” he said in a video that uploaded to his Instagram account after realizing that he had run out of documents, money and cards.
And he added: “They assure that everything is watched here and that they are going to find the wallet. I had the documents, money, cards… Obviously that’s what worries me the most, the other doesn’t matter to me at all. So nothing, we’ll see what happens. Experiences that one did not expect to live, live them”.
Minutes later, he reappeared, but this time to record the interior of the police station and its striking operation. “Here we are inside the police station. As a detail of ‘color’, put it, it is a sector for women only. They made me go to a waiting area for women only because everything is divided”, he said, at the same time that he showed the place with the cell phone camera.
And he continued: “In a sector there are the men. You go to the main counter and they refer you. Now comes a female police officer. Let’s see what they tell me.”
The cultural difference was a big surprise to her. However, the astonishment was just beginning. Hours later, she spoke live with TN and gave more details about the experience. “It was a theft,” she sentenced. And, by way of context, she added: “We were dancing with the people who join and group, I am convinced that someone opened the zipper and took it. One was not with all the senses sharpened at that moment to see around”. she asserted.
After talking to a policeman on the street and being sent directly to the police station, she explained that she ran into a series of customs that left her speechless. “There the male police officers do not search you, they do not attend to you or see you. They send you to another office with all women. At one point when they are making the statement they ask me ‘what do you want the Justice to do when they find him? Because we are going to find it, we have very high-tech cameras and we are going to find it,’” she said.
And he finished: “I asked him what he was referring to. They tell me: ‘What do you want Justice to do? Sentence him to 5 years in jail, deport him?’ I mean, maybe I misunderstood. And they insist: ‘But you can decide‘”. However, Metzger made it clear that he “did not want that responsibility” but he just wanted to get his belongings back. At the moment, she did not clarify if she succeeded or not.
THE NATION