Much Loved: Loubna Abidar fled to France – Le Figaro

The heroine of Nabil Ayouch film had already received death threats. Last Thursday molested in Casablanca, the actress chose to flee Morocco for security reasons.

Traumatized after Thursday attack in Casablanca Loubna Abidar has cut off his cell phone and took the first plane to France. She knew she was taking a risk by performing the role of a prostitute in Much Loved , the film of the Franco-Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch, but could she imagine that we would attack to it physically?

The actress, aged 30, should not disclose to the press within close about this episode which she says she was victim on Thursday. The video posted on the Internet that it is nevertheless impressive. It sees close-up, swollen face with a black eye and eyebrow left open arcade but not stitched.

“I was assaulted in Casablanca. No police or hospital wanted to accept me. I went to the police station in Casablanca great at night and I was received with laughter. The policeman said: “Finally, Abidar was hit, ‘” she explains on his Facebook account

“I was the victim of. attack in Casablanca. No police or hospital wanted to accept me. I went to the police station in Casablanca great at night and I was received with laughter. The policeman said: “! Finally, Abidar was struck” “

Loubna Abidar took the opportunity to meet again with his detractors, many since Much Loved was presented at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes last May, before being banned in Morocco “for incitement to prostitution.” “All because I made a movie you have not watched. You watched what they wanted to show you. Judge me from the real movie. “

Awarded in August by the Valois for Best actress in Angoulême, the young woman initially hesitated to return to his country for professional reasons, the film have earned him death threats from fundamentalists whom she had complained on social networks. To date, even if it has an agent, it has no other film project. In early June, one of his partners, he was attacked with knives. “I’m not afraid to die for a movie, but I hope that with time things will calm down, and that the Moroccan society evolve,” had she told Le Figaro . Mother of a 6 year old daughter, the actress was determined to continue making “committed films” and “become a spokesman to defend the status of Arab women, Moroccan, Syrian, Lebanese …”.