Comment by xyst
15 hours ago
> demonstrated by our courts, did they do it at behest of Qatar
Honestly, this is a possibility.
beIN, like any Qatar based company, is majority owned by the state. Qatar is infamously rich in oil with the state able to subsidize luxury lifestyles for citizens it deems worthy.
France needs oil, like any other country. So if a journalist could follow the money. Could probably find where the pressure was applied within the government.
The rich using archaic copyright laws to get their way has been modus operandi for quite awhile. Seen this applied both in USA and abroad.
So it is no secret that Dodi Fayed and his family were prominent Egyptians, but I recently discovered that a memorial to Dodi and Princess Diana, Innocent Victims is displayed prominently in a Harrods department store. Harrods itself is owned by the Qatari sovereign wealth fund; in other words, Qatar owns the Harrods chain of department stores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrods
And by contrast, Selfridges (among other chains) is owned jointly by a Thai conglomerate and the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridges_Group