"It Is to Erase the Name of a Resistant, of a Filmmaker Whose Work Was Devoted to the Freedom of Creation": the Far Right Mayor Debaptizes the Cinema of His Commune Near Perpignan and Creates the Controversy
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Six months after his election, Steve Fortel, elected to Elne, multiplied the actions to erase the left in this former communist bastion.
The cinema of Elne, named René Vautier in tribute to the filmmaker, director, screenwriter, engaged and rewarded, will change its name. It is the decision of the new far-right mayor, Steve Fortel, who created a new...
In Elne (Pyrénées-Orientales), the new edile no longer wants the municipal hall to bear the name of René Vautier, a filmmaker who fought for Algeria's independence. A decision that ulcers the opposition and the director's family.
In the Pyrénées-Orientales, Elne's cinema, named René Vautier in tribute to the communist and anti-colonial filmmaker, will change its name. In the name of so-called political neutrality, the new far-right mayor turns his back on history and spits on the memory of the resistors.
Six months after the election of Mayor Steve Fortel to the town hall of Elne (Pyrénées-Orientales), the new majority decided to transform the cinema of the municipality of 9,500 inhabitants. The establishment, previously run by an association, will now be run by a municipal government and will change its name.
The new mayor of Elna, Steve Fortel, a far-right figure, has decided that the city’s municipal cinema will no longer bear the name of René Vautier, in a decision that has caused a lot of controversy in the city. Since this September, the cinema has been called “La bobine illibérienne”, in reference to Il·líberis, the old name of the city in Roussillon. The filmmaker’s relatives and defenders of his legacy have welcomed the decision as an attempt…
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