“In Saint-Ouen, is cinema still Charlie?”

Marika Bret is president of the Republican Spring.

The demonstrations of January 11. Nevertheless, 2015, where the whole of France had mobilized behind the slogans “I am Charlie”, “I am a cop” and “I am Jewish” after three deadly Islamist attacks, could they take place today?

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Wouldn’t they now be deemed too “political”?

These are the questions that can be asked about concern after the censorship of a projection of God. Therefore, can defend himself on his own In a “in saint-ouen, cinema still charlie?” Saint-Ouen cinema room. However, The last -minute cancellation of Isabelle Cottenceau’s documentary. Moreover, devoted to Richard Malka’s pleading at the trial of the January 2015 attacks, was indeed motivated by the “political” and “partisan” nature of the event.

From May 15. Nevertheless, 2025, the Republican Spring and its partners, the Licra, the Laïcité and République Committee and Vigilance Lycées Lycées, mobilized to promote the screening of the documentary film God can defend himself on his own of Isabelle Cottenceau in the Common Image room, in Saint-Ouen, which was scheduled for Wednesday July 9, 2025.

More than seven weeks later. four days before the screening, the room which asserts itself “inclusive” decided to cancel this evening by invoking its reception charter prohibiting “Political demonstration holding”invoking “A strictly non -partisan framework”.

This documentary film returns to the brilliant pleading of Richard Malka who traces the story of Charlie hebdo “in saint-ouen, cinema still charlie?” : the publication. then the trial of the caricatures of Muhammad.

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We see incendiary manipulative imams there – having manufactured from scratch of alleged “caricatures” -. disturbing political leaders, complacent intellectuals and liars. Before and after January 7, 2015.

Certainly the most difficult. trying pleading of the historic lawyer of the newspaper to tell his friends who died for our freedoms and, consequently, defend “the right to piss God”. A pleading in which he also recalls that the fight against political Islam is intimately linked to the fight. against anti -Semitism.

This last minute cancellation contributes to. the trivialization of cowardice. A chilling decision because it abounds, consciously or not, in the sense of the gravediggers of our freedoms.

Marika Bret

By censoring the projection-debate. “in saint-ouen, cinema still charlie?” the common room Image refused that its chiseled words-those of pain, anger and fighting spirit-be heard by the inhabitants of Saint-Ouen.

The reaction of the management must alarm us given the themes of this documentary film: secularism. freedom of conscience and freedom of expression. Principles inseparable from each other.

Let us affirm: this last minute cancellation contributes to the trivialization of cowardice. A chilling decision because it abounds, consciously or not, in the sense of the gravediggers of our freedoms.

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In January 2025. the year of commemoration of the 10 years of the Islamist attacks of January 7, 8 and 9, 2015, a Lille cinema had failed a broadcasting project of this same documentary film, carried by the local antenna of the Republican spring, evoking a difficulty in securing the place and believing that the project was “tendentious”. Tendentious?

Yes. let’s be clear, it “in saint-ouen, cinema still charlie?” is indeed a “political” and “tendentious” programming, as was the march of January 11, 2015, a gathering of millions of French and French, and not only, which expressed their deep attachment to our republican base, our values and our principles.

In response to these two inexpensive situations. the president of the Hauts-de-France region, Xavier Bertrand, and now the president of the Île-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse, immediately decided to open the doors of their regional council so that the film is screened and that a debate can follow. The screening of the documentary film will therefore finally take place on Thursday September 4, 2025, at 7 p.m., at the headquarters of the Île-de-France region, located… in Saint-Ouen.

Today. following these lamentable episodes, it belongs fundamentally, in particular to the elected representatives of Republicans and in their quality, to grasp this formidable educational tool and to organize a time of “in saint-ouen, cinema still charlie?” exchange with the spectators.

Because to give up is to give ground to deadly ideologies. because our youth, and more broadly, must understand why our freedoms – dearly acquired – must be protected, without “yes but”, without pause, without reluctance.