Controversial French film on 2015 Bataclan attacks postponed

French public television has put a controversial film about the Bataclan massacre on ice “until all of the victims’ groups are consulted”.

Ce soir-la (That Night), starring Sandrine Bonnaire, is a love story set on the fateful night in November 2015 when Paris was hit by a wave of terror attacks that left 130 people dead.

But Claire Peltier, the partner of one the people murdered at the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan – where 90 people were killed by extremist gunmen – called for the “scandalous” film to be shelved.

She said it was far too soon for “such a painful” story to be revisited.

Filming finished earlier this month but the France 2 station said late on Thursday that the project was being put on hold.

“No transmission date had been fixed for the film … which has not yet been seen by the station’s management,” it said in a statement.

An online petition calling for the film to be scrapped gathered 36,000 signatures on change.org in a month.