Muslims Force Closure of Cinema During Eid

 H/T  Cheradenine Zakalwe

Several groups of “jeunes” disrupted the operation of the Jaude cinema on Friday afternoon in the centre of Clermont-Ferrand. They even caused the closure of the establishment for the evening following attacks on the employees.
Between 4.30 pm and 6 pm, the cinema management was forced to intervene in four of the seven screens in the complex. “Adolescents of 13 to 14 years of age were behaving badly. They were speaking loudly, using their phones, even spitting on members of the audience”, says one of the cinema managers.

A showing of the film “Taken 2” even had to be cancelled and reimbursed “after these ‘jeunes’ were stirred up”. The police were warned and turned up on site. Despite that, the pressure continued to mount. There were several groups of ‘jeunes’, who didn’t necessarily know one another. “Among those we had to order out of the theatres and those to whom we denied entry, there was a small gathering in front of the cinema doors.”

Around 6 pm, one of the managers went out, “I wanted to ask them to calm down”. As far as calm is concerned, “he was insulted, threatened, thrown to the ground and kicked many times. He was injured on the face and body. A second employee who came to help him was hurt on the knee and wrist. One of the doors was also broken,” said a member of the management team who took the decision to close the doors around 7.30 pm after having cancelled the 7 pm showing of James Bond. The economic loss was significant: “We were expecting between 1000 and 1500 viewers”.


…The management of the Jaude cinema denounces what it called identical problems “occurring repeatedly for several years now during the two days of Eid, a festival that should be oriented towards prayer, solidarity and joy”. The management of the Jaude cinema deny that they are making inappropriate generalisations: “Don’t misunderstand, we are not speaking about a Muslim problem but the lack of ability in our society to manage this malaise in the urban estates which is overflowing more and more from the suburbs.”

Source: La Montagne