2023-10-07 04:21:29
A bomb threat led to the evacuation for more than an hour of the Bastia theater and the 750 spectators gathered Friday evening for the first screening in Corsica of a film inspired by a double assassination on the island, a- we learned from the prosecution, emergency services and the organization.
“The gendarmes received an anonymous call reporting the presence of explosives” in the building, said François Thévenot, acting prosecutor of Bastia. The theater was evacuated shortly before 8 p.m. and “investigations by deminers” were carried out, the emergency services said.
“A CRS brigade showed up and told us they had received a call telling them that they had received a parcel bomb alert,” said Mélanie Manigand, director of the Arte Mare film festival. After an hour, the spectators were able to return to the room, according to France Blue.
For the moment, the police services have not made a direct link with the screening, scheduled for 9:15 p.m., of the film “Borgo”, in the presence of the director and part of the team, she said. added.
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“Borgo”, a feature film directed by Stéphane Demoustier, is inspired by the story of a prison guard involved in a double assassination perpetrated in 2017 at Bastia-Poretta airport and whose trial is due to open in May.
This film has sparked controversy in recent weeks on the island, its theatrical release being planned before the trial before the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court.
Julien Pinelli, lawyer for one of the 17 indicted in this case, declared that it was “particularly regrettable that a work of fiction took over this case even before the opening of the trial” which “does not is not a show or entertainment” but “reality at its most dramatic for the people and families concerned”.
On December 5, 2017, Jean-Luc Codaccioni and Antoine Quilichini, two men considered to be members of Corsican organized crime, were victims of an ambush by a shooter at Bastia-Poretta airport. Seriously injured, the first died a few days later, the second died instantly.
In total, 17 people were indicted in this case, including a guard at Borgo prison accused of helping to identify the targets.
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