Threats from young Muslims have forced a Paris suburb to cancel an open-air screening of the Barbie movie, prompting prosecutors to open an inquiry.

The cancellation has fuelled a debate over how fundamentalists among the country’s population of six million Muslims are seeking to impose their vision of society on the French way of life.

The 2023 film , directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Margot Robbie, was an Oscar-winning box office hit and hailed as a feminist triumph.

It was due to be screened for free in Noisy-le-Sec, the heart of the high-immigrant Seine-Saint-Denis département, on Aug 8 as part of an outdoor summer holiday cinema for residents from poorer areas.

However, the town’s communist mayor told a press conference on Thursday that he shelved the screening to “protect” t

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