Distributors of Black, filmed in notorious Molenbeek suburb, say many cinemas had refused to show it after Paris attacks.
A film about gangs set in the tough Brussels suburb where a jihadi cell planned the Paris terror attacks has been pulled from French cinemas.
The distributors of Black, filmed in the Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital made notorious by the 13 November gunmen, told Agence France-Presse on Friday they were forced into the decision because so many cinemas were refusing to show it.
It is the third film handling such sensitive subject matter to have run into trouble in France since the killings in which 130 people died.
The move came as a Paris court overturned a decision not to allow anyone under 18 to see Salafistes, a controversial exposé of African radical Islam, which was an almost unheard of restriction on a documentary.
The distributors of Black had already been hit by a similar decision from the culture ministry to bar under-16s from seeing their Romeo and Juliet-style story of forbidden love between members of two rival gangs.
A spokesman for Paname Distribution said: “Due to the reluctance of cinemas to show Black in the current climate, we took the decision to cancel its cinematic release.”
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