Danish TV apologizes for comparing the Morocco World Cup team to monkeys

World Cup 2022 has ended yet left so many rumors behind including Danish TV calling Morocco team "monkeys". Here are the details.

TV 2 Danmark, a Danish public broadcaster, has apologized for a segment on one of its shows that compared the Morocco national team to monkeys for hugging their families. Host Soren Lippert showed an image of a family of monkeys huddled together in the segment of the show "NEWS & Co." that aired earlier this week on TV 2 NEWS. His colleague Christian Hagh Andersen compared this to Moroccan players embracing their mothers during World Cup match celebrations.

Danish TV apologizes for comparing the Morocco World Cup team to monkeys

World Cup was quite exciting this year but many problems remained even after the games are over. So many racist comments were made this year and one got quite intense. A Danish broadcaster compared Moroccon team to monkeys which resulted in arguments.

Danish channel compares #Morocco players’ embrace with mothers to monkeys!

TV 2 News (@tv2danmark) showed a segment in which the host held up an image of monkeys embracing while talking about Morocco’s national team players hugging their mothers at #QatarWorldCup.#Denmark pic.twitter.com/hWwW6wXXC1
— DOAM (@doamuslims) December 17, 2022