Aymeric Caron cancels his visit to Toulouse: the MP threatened when he was to present his documentary “Gaza after October 7”

Scheduled for September then finally postponed for reasons cited by the MP and journalist Aymeric Caron's agenda, the screening of the documentary “Gaza after October 7” was announced on Saturday at the Utopia Toulouse cinema but without its director. “Having been the subject of new threats, Aymeric Caron is canceling his visit to Toulouse at the end of the week” communicates the Utopia cinema in Toulouse. “In agreement with his team and the Mutineers of Pangea, we are maintaining the screening scheduled for Saturday November 30 at 10:30 a.m.”. Arnaud Clappier, director of the Utopia Borderouge cinema, also specifies: “The turmoil does not come from Toulouse but from Paris. There is not the shadow of a remark or a complaint here.”

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In September, the announcement of the screening in Toulouse was not as well received. An alert was made to local authorities, the prefecture and the public prosecutor by a film buff who found the documentary screened last May at the National Assembly and visible on the website of the film cooperative Les Mutins de Pangée, “at charge without mentioning the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Montage d’images

To justify the postponement of the broadcast, the Utopia Borderouge cinema then mentioned: “By the very nature of the film, this screening only makes sense if it is accompanied by an exchange with the person who designed the editing”. However, Aymeric Caron who collected images sent from the Palestinian enclave of Gaza will not be present…

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However, the session will be followed by an exchange with André Rosevègue, spokesperson for the UJFP (French Jewish Union for Peace), co-author of “Journey of anti-Zionist Jews in France” (Syllepse 2022) and activists from Palestine Solidarity Toulouse, in the presence of deputies Anne Stambach-Terrenoire and Hadrien Clouet.