Jean-Luc Godard in 1984″Je vous salue, Marie” (“I greet you Mary”), The story of a young woman named María who discovers she is pregnant one day despite never having slept with any man, not even her boyfriend José.
Because of this plot and the way Godard developed it, the movie starring a very young Myriem Roussel and Thierry Rode is considered one of the most controversial European films of all time. So much so that, Pope Juan Pablo II He publicly condemned the film harshly and threw a cake in the face of its director, Jean-Luc Godard. Cannes Festival.
Also, staunch Catholics from around the world staged protests in front of many cinemas where the controversial film was shown. They did this in Valencia as well, but in this case the level of protests went a little further.
In the early hours of September 9, 1985, nine weeks after the premiere of “Je vous salue, Marie” at the Acteón cinema, a low-power device exploded in the lobby of the building. Also, some graffiti appeared on the door of the cinema that you can “read”.Franc, present” and “the second anniversary of the removal of the Franco statue”, so investigators immediately suspected far-right groups operating in the city. The investigation was closed without any arrests.
As collected the day after the event Upgrade-EMV, A newspaper belonging to the Prensa Ibérica group to which this newspaper belongs, the device was home-made and caused minor damage, although glass doors and information boards were also damaged by the effects of the blast wave. Members of the Cedax explosive disposal team, who arrived at the scene a few minutes after the explosion, picked up the pieces of shrapnel found in the mixture.
According to investigators, the device had not previously been placed in the lobby of the cinema, but had been thrown through the bars of the metal shutter of the workplace.
Twenty years after this uninjured attack, the Acteón cinema closed its doors, and one of its owners, Ernesto Sebastián, remembered this event for a long time. Upgrade-EMV. “Well, it wasn’t a big fear because we were waiting, I don’t even remember the name, because a lawyer was campaigning against it,” Sebastián said.
The lawyer the businessman is referring to may be Ramón Tatay, who filed a complaint against the film in 1985. Jean-Luc Godard for alleged offenses of contempt and mockery. This complaint was also addressed to Ernesto Sebastián, as the director of the Acteón cinema, for showing the film in Valencia, and to the show guides “Cartelera Turia” and “Qué y donde” for recommending the film.
According to the news of El País on August 25, 1985, the presiding judge of the Valencia Criminal Court No. 7, Gustavo Solaz, went to the Acteón cinema to watch the movie “Je vous” one afternoon, following the complaint against the film. Hi, Marie” accompanied by prosecutor Miguel Mirabet. He asked for his dismissal, so the judge sued.
The same newspaper recalled that Ramón Tatay was one of 500 people involved in the lawsuit filed against the Teledeum game by lawyer Carlos Verdú, linked to the extinct Fuerza Nueva party. Due to this complaint, members of the Els Joglars group and the manager of the room where the work was carried out in Valencia were prosecuted.