• Criticism: While the war lasts: Amenábar and Franco, present!
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Lys cinemas in Valencia. 8:30 pm session. A group of ultra-right radicals wait in their localities to begin the screening of Alejandro Amenábar's film While the war lasts to boycott it, generating with proclamations, shouts and insults an altercation that caused the departure of a dozen spectators .

They were members of the Spain 2000 platform, which broadcast live everything that happened. As seen in the images, as soon as the projection begins, four men deploy under the screen on which an image of the Republican flag is projected, a large red-and-black banner that reads "Join the resistance. Spain ". At that moment you begin the cries of "Viva España", "España, una, grande y libre" or "Viva Cristo Rey". For two minutes, the ultra-rightists remained under the screen despite the requests of the spectators to leave.

"We bitter life" is heard to say to some of the spectators. Others, a dozen, chose to leave the room and have the amount of the ticket returned. From the cinemas themselves, the Local Police were notified, who identified five people and took action for an alleged violation of the Citizen Security Law. The procedure is now in the hands of the Government Delegation, as municipal sources have explained to Europa Press.

From the Lys Cinemas a communiqué has been made public in which they deeply regret "what happened" and they are unmarked "of these unlawful acts that violate people's freedom ".

Those responsible for the space report that "at the end of this incident, some clients had left the room and others decided to stay, thus continuing the projection normally" and recognize "the good work of the employees and law enforcement, who immediately attended to those affected and went to check what happened, verifying that the projection continued normally. "

In the same vein, the room thanks "the good behavior of the clients, both those who left the room and those who stayed to watch the movie, who did not participate in these provocations, thus avoiding major incidents." "Our intention is to continue projecting this film with the same enthusiasm with which we project the rest of the films, and in order to seek maximum satisfaction from our audience," they assert.

Amenábar: "They haven't achieved anything"

The director of the film, Alejandro Amenábar, thanked the spectators who continue to come to see his new work, despite "the announcements of boycotts" that "have not achieved anything so far."

The director, in an interview with Canal Sur Radio, collected by Europa Press, has indicated that he is not surprised by events such as happened last night in Valencia "because I have seen boycott announcements against the film." "All I can do is thank the people who are approaching to see it," he summarized.

It is not the first time that Spain 2000 has organized boycotts. Last June, taking advantage of the fact that any citizen can go up to the balcony of the Valencia City Council since the arrival of Joan Ribó's government, they displayed a banner in which "Hetero Pride" could be read. In October 2017, they were denounced for a slight crime of threats and coercion by organizing a escrache before the private housing of Vice President Monica Oltra. All defendants were acquitted of the crimes and sentenced to a fine of 1,800 euros and a restraining order for six months. According to the ruling, "the facts, in short, although unnecessary from the point of view of freedom of expression, are not constitutive of criminal wrongdoing."

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