Controversial Documentary on School Veil Ban Cancelled in Nice: Anti-Screening Planned for Sunday

The broadcast was cancelled. The film 2004-2020, 20 years of exclusionary law forward the carpet in the school it was not shown at the Variétés cinema in Nice this Friday, May 3 in the evening. On the advice of the chief executive of Alpes-Maritimes, Hugues Moutouh, the room went back. Benoît Huber, the chief of staff of the chief executive, confirmed that Figaro be “intervene directly to invite the management to drop this broadcast”. For what ? The representative of the State is afraid of disturbance in terms of public order and that the broadcast of the documentary could be “bad effect on cinema image”.

Standing against the law on March 15, 2004 on religious symbols in school, the film questions the ban on wearing the kilt in school and argues that “victory” has been “social death experiences”. The collection responsible for the exhibition is also led by “vice president of the CCIF” (Convention against Islamophobia in France), which was dissolved in 2020 after the assassination of Samuel Paty, specifies Benoît Huber.

Anti-screening planned for this Sunday

The chief of staff made sure to stay “very attentive”. In fact, the association DTR-FENIKS said on social networks that they had found another option. So another screening would be planned this Sunday on the western outskirts of Nice, between 6:15 pm and 8:15 pm, to allow part of the public to see the documentary at all costs.