The director of the international TV signal at the European Football Championship match between Denmark and Finland has resisted criticism of inappropriate recordings after the collapse of the Danish Christian Eriksen. “We showed the sadness and despair of the people, the players, the staff and the audience,” said Frenchman Jean-Jacques Amselm of “L'Equipe”.
“At that moment of greatest concern, we also felt a unity. That had to be conveyed. I don't call that voyeurism.” The producer of the program was in constant contact with UEFA. “And the instructions were clear,” said Anselm: “We were told that we shouldn't show a close-up of him or a heart massage. But that it wasn't a problem to show emotions.”
The director stuck to that. “There is a slow motion of the scene in which you could really have seen how it falls. But I immediately gave my team the instruction not to look at it anymore,” said the director: “With more than 30 cameras We could have shown him up close in the stadium, but we never did. “
Broadcasting stations had been criticized, in part, for broadcasting the official TV images from Copenhagen for several minutes.
