After having tried, in vain, to hinder the distribution of the book “Qatar Papers” by Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, by mobilizing Arab scholarship students to massively buy the book, Qatar is trying to contain the audience of the documentary from the same book.

Having failed to prevent its broadcasting in France, despite a letter of protest sent by the Qatari Embassy to the Arte channel, co-producer and broadcaster of the film, the Doha authorities tried to acquire the international rights to the film, to ensure that no channel could broadcast it outside the French-speaking world.