Resumen de France: : Court suspends classification licence banning the showing of ‘Salafistes’ to under-18s
On 27 January - the day on which the film ‘Salafistes’ was released in cinemas - Minister for Culture Fleur Pellerin, adopting the Film Classification Board’s opinion, banned the showing of the documentary film to anyone less than 18 years of age. The film provides a sounding board for a number of theoreticians of Islamic terrorism, and shows the everyday application of sharia law in Mauritania, Mali and Iraq. It also includes video footage of propaganda by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and by al-Qaeda, as well as amateur footage filmed during the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the attack against the magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’. Considered by some to be a “dangerous platform offered to extremists” and by others a “vital, enlightening document”, and released just months after the attacks in Paris, the film has caused widespread controversy.
