The University of Arts in Iasi suspended the show “At the edge of Copou”, which had Mihai Mălaimare in distribution, after the actor wrote on Facebook that “the tour comes as a huge wave and you will reach the channel, or to the channel!”. The institution justified its decision as “an urge to keep our calm. “
Mihai Mălaimare. Photo Facebook Mihai Mălaimare
“Following the tense discussions in the public space spent in recent days, we return and emphasize that the National University of Arts” George Enescu “Iaşi condemns any extremist statement and manifestation. The appeal to solidarity and discernment should not be understood as a measure of acceptance of any form of skid, but it is an urge to keep our calm. At the same time, we strongly reaffirm respect for democracy and European values. Given all this, the project “At the edge of Copou” is stopped, and the representations already announced and promoted have been suspended “, said the “George Enescu” University of Arts in Iasi, on Saturday, in a statement posted on Facebook.
On Friday, the university’s management had announced that the show was canceled due to adverse weather conditions.
Mihai Mălaimare: “I am the extent of the reactions”
Actor Mihai Mălaimare accused an abusive interpretation of the affections and announced his withdrawal from Facebook “forever”.
“I am sidelaged by the extent of the reactions and the abusive interpretation that was given to a post that I made some time ago. I do not imagine the return of Stalinist communism and I do not think about sending people to «channel». Anyone can be in this fight, I see, but I refuse to be part of it under these conditions. To those who commented unqualified to my address on this occasion, they only tell them to be deceived, to those who support me. I will retire from Facebook forever. ”
“You didn’t want the second round!”
We recall that actor Mihai Mălaimare, a supporter of Călin Georgescu, wrote on his Facebook page the following message:
“You did not want the second round! The tour II comes as a huge wave and you will reach the channel, or on the channel.”,
After the post has aroused numerous reactions in the online environment, it was deleted from the actor’s Facebook page.
Posting made by actor Mihai Mălaimare. Facebook photo
IICCMER: “It is not only unqualified, it is quite toxic”
We also recall that the Institute for Investigation of the Crimes of Communism reacted to the act of the actor “means mocking the real suffering of those who knew the” channel “, says IICCMER.
The representatives of the Institute claim that the message of the actor Mihai Mălaimare, in which he refers to the channel as a punishment for the political options of some citizens, “It is not only unqualified, it is quite toxic. “
“Beyond the second round: about memory, democracy and public decency. There are moments in the life of the city where the words spoken can no longer be apologized by passion or inattention. They inevitably become symptoms of a moral disease that grinds the public space: the contempt for democracy and the dignity of the other. It only means lack of historical memory. ICCMER claims.
“If the tour II” comes as a wave “, then it will be a wave of lucidity”
If the tour II “comes as a wave”, then it will be a wave of lucidity, discernment, resistance to manipulation, the Institute of Communism Crimes said.
“Mr. Mălaimare, her theatrical, political, political or civic culture-implies responsibility. It implies the refusal of violent language, of the veil threat and the ideological segregation. You prefer in this message to deride a fundamental principle of democracy: pluralism. And for this, there is no need for an «channel»but of a minimum gesture of reflection. If tour II «comes as a wave»then be a Wave of luciditydiscernment, manipulation resistance. A wave that brings, among others, the mud left such public outings ”explains Prof. Univ. dr. Daniel Șandru, president of the Institute for the Crimes of Communism.
Iiccmer asked the National Audiovisual Council “to exercise their attributions of supervision on the public speech to hatred and division, and to the artistic community in Romania – an essential space of memory and freedom – to delimit unequivocally from such positions with a totalitarian character ”.
Among those who reacted to the actor’s post were the students of the University of Iasi, who asked to stop the collaboration with Mihai Mălaimare.
