A tear gas bomb was hurtled into a Montevideo movie theater on May 31, disrupting the showing of a U.S. made film about Adolf Eichmann’s abduction from Argentina by Israeli agents in 1960, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith disclosed today.
According to the ADL, hundreds were forced to flee the Cine Central where “The House on Garibaldi Street” was playing. The Jewish Central Committee of Uruguay called the incident a “neo-Nazi attack” and asked the authorities to punish those responsible, ADL said. Earlier, the film was withdrawn from three movie theaters in Argentina after one week when two Argentine citizens filed suit to bar its showing on the grounds that the film “mocks Argentina’s sovereignty.”
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