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Barbie Screening Cancelled After Muslim Youths Complain of ‘Homosexuality’

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Investigation launched as France’s Right-wing condemns cancellation as ‘submitting to Islamist ideology’

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The pressure of fundamentalists and extremists prevented the screening of the film "Barbie" in a French open-air cinema, because it would exalt a wrong image of women and promote homosexuality. A group of Islamics managed to cancel the screening of Greta Gerwi's film Barbie...

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The city of Paris suburbs cancelled the broadcast, Friday, August 8 on a giant screen, of the American blockbuster to 6 million admissions to France. The cause: threats made by a small group of young people. Thursday, August 14, at a press conference, the mayor of the commune of Seine-Saint-Denis called the facts "unacceptable" but also outraged himself of the "political recovery" that followed.

·Paris, France
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Recalling that he condemned "obscurantism" of those who had cancelled the broadcast of the film, the communist mayor denounced "political recovery" and "racist Islamophobic hatred".

·Paris, France
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In order to ease the tensions, the mayor of Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis) decided to cancel the broadcast of the intended Barbie film on a large screen. In question, men who intimidated the municipal agents. According to some residents, who demand its deprogrammation, the film would promote homosexuality and convey a degrading image of the woman. Two complaints were lodged, and on Thursday 14 August at night, the Minister of the Interior post…

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Le Parisien broke the news in Paris, France on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
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