On Saturday, during the screening of the film Creed 3, a fight broke out in a multiplex in the center of Saint-Étienne. The session was stopped and the room was evacuated by the police. Since the release of the American film, several media have reported the intervention of the police in cinemas in France to put an end to clashes between young people.
A brawl broke out in a multiplex in the center of Saint-Étienne on Saturday afternoon during the screening of the film Creed 3, leading to the stoppage of the session and the evacuation of the room by the police, a-t- we learned on Sunday from the latter and the operator of the cinema. It is in addition to two other fights which broke out the same day in Thionville (Moselle) and Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) after which the police made one and two arrests, according to a police source.
Twenty people arrested
Since the Wednesday release of the American film Creed 3, which takes place in the middle of boxing, several media have reported the intervention of the police in cinemas in France to put an end to clashes between young people, of which a video has especially circulating on social networks. In Saint-Étienne, 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 an official of the Megarama multiplex. “We were unable to restore calm. Police intervention was necessary to put an end to the fights with bottles being thrown, one of which hit the head of one of our security guards,” said he added.
Ivry-sur-Seine: a fight broke out in the hall of a cinema where #Creed3 had just aired. A woman “on the phone for the duration of the film” is said to be the source of tension. (Destination Cinema) #Pathepic.twitter.com/7Iy1d7b8dG
– Mediavenir (@Mediavenir) March 3, 2023
In July 2021, the Saint-Etienne theater had experienced a similar precedent on the occasion of the release of the American film Fast & Furious 9. A projectionist operator 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.