Hitting a raw nerve: jihadist thriller pulled from cinemas after Paris attacks

A film about a wave of jihadist attacks on Paris due out on Wednesday has been pulled from cinemas, with the release of a string of others also touching on terrorism now being questioned.

Made in France, about a series of simultaneous attacks on the French capital, had already been dropped by distributors in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and kosher supermarket shootings in January.

Its hard-hitting poster shows a Kalashnikov assault rifle – the weapon used by gunmen in Friday’s bloodshed – superimposed on the Eiffel tower, with the tagline, “The threat comes from within” in reference to the sort of home-grown extremists now known to have been behind both attacks on the French capital this year.

The plot of the thriller has eerie parallels with reality, with an extremist cell planning a series of shootings and bombings across Paris “that will shake France” and the world.

“We are at war,” their leader says, in a chilling counterpoint to President Francois Hollande’s words to parliament on Monday.