And three! A brawl broke out in a cinema in the center of Saint-Etienne on Saturday afternoon during the screening of the film Creed 3, leading to the cessation of the session and the evacuation of the room by the police, we learned this Sunday. It is in addition to two other fights which broke out the same day in Thionville, in Moselle, and in Charleville-Mézières, in the Ardennes, after which the police made one and two arrests, according to a police source.
Police response
Since the Wednesday release of the American film Creed 3which is about the boxing world, several media have reported the intervention of the police in cinemas in France to put an end to clashes between young people, a video of which has circulated on social networks.
In Saint-Etienne, Saturday afternoon, “among the more than 300 people present in the room, the police arrested about twenty of them, noting their identities before releasing them”, specified, to AFP, a responsible for the Megarama multiplex. “We were unable to restore calm. The intervention of the police was necessary to end the fights with throwing bottles, one of which hit the head of one of our security guards,” he added.
In July 2021, the Saint-Etienne room had known a similar precedent on the occasion of the release of the American film Fast & Furious 9. An operator-projectionist had been “seriously” injured in the head while trying to restore calm, according to the same source. To date, “he still has not returned to work”, we concluded.
The screening had not started
In Charleville-Mézières, Saturday evening, another brawl broke out in the Métropolis cinema, leading to the intervention of the police, the evacuation of the room and the interruption of the projection – which had not started. The police dispersed people who had gathered in front of the cinema to fight.
The two people suspected of being at the origin of the brawl, “a 20-year-old man and a minor” were placed in police custody for “violence in a meeting”, indicated Magali Josse, the prosecutor of Charleville-Mézières .