While numerous world-famous personalities and political parties are calling for a ban on the screening of Boris Malagurski’s controversial film, it was shown in Germany thanks to the Turkish diaspora in this country.
Namely, after the controversial film by Boris Malagurski ”Srpska: the Struggle for Freedom” was banned in all commercial cinemas in Germany, the Turkish community (Fenerbahce fans) in the German city of Dortmund, for unknown reasons, decided to offer its premises for the screening of the film in which, between among other things, the genocide in Srebrenica is denied.
Malagurski thanked them for that in a post on Facebook.
”I would like to thank the Turkish community in Dortmund for allowing us to show the film ”Srpska: the Struggle for Freedom”on its premises. We do not hate anyone, no nation, no religion, we respect everyone’s freedom of expression. But we will not allow the distortion of historical facts, as well as the suppression of our freedom of speech and right to exist,” Malagurski expressed.
According to Malagurski, the film was supposed to be shown in the CineStar cinema, but after pressure from the German Green party, it was canceled for political and financial reasons.
”Once again, a big thank you to the Turkish community in Dortmund for showing themselves to be great people, opening the door to a film that also deals with the Ottoman era in the Balkans and teaching Germans a lesson about European values, freedom, and tolerance for different opinions,” Malagurski added.
To recall, the announcement of the premiere of Boris Malagurski’s film “Srpska: the Struggle for Freedom” caused numerous negative reactions, because – judging by what is presented in it- the genocide is first of all denied and the roles of genocide victims and criminals are equated.
Numerous world-famous personalities, human rights organizations, political parties, and non-governmental organizations raised their voices so that the premiere would not take place in numerous European cities, in which they largely succeeded, Klix.ba reports.
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