THE FUERTEVENTURA COUNCIL HAS ALREADY LODGED A COMPLAINT

The Mundobasket video promotes the Gran Canaria venue with images of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote

The Fuerteventura Council has contacted the Spanish Basketball Federation to express a complaint about the use of these images of the island of Majorera?

February 4 2014 (13:52 WET)
The Mundobasket video promotes the Gran Canaria venue with images of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote
The Mundobasket video promotes the Gran Canaria venue with images of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote

The 2014 Mundobasket video uses images of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura to promote the venue in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which will host this championship. In this video you can see landscapes such as Timanfaya or El Charco de Los Clicos, in Lanzarote, or Cofete, in Fuerteventura, under the heading of the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria venue.

The Cabildo of Fuerteventura has already contacted the Spanish Basketball Federation to express this complaint about the use of images of Fuerteventura. The president of the Cabildo of Majorera, Mario Cabrera, understands that "the best Basketball World Championship has chosen images of the best beaches in the world, which are in Fuerteventura", but considers that at least it should "identify them correctly", instead of "locating them on other islands".

"It can mislead potential visitors," Cabrera said in a statement. The video can be seen on the Youtube account of the Spanish Basketball Federation. The references to the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria venue appear from minute 1.20 to 1.45. 

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