‘I do not know if I will be able to show this work in France at all, because I don't know who is going to dare to do that.’

A history museum in Nantes, France, decided to postpone an exhibition about Mongol emperor Gengis Khan to 2024 due to Chinese “censorial interference”.

Teacher Samuel Paty was killed by an 18-year old, after showing his students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a free speech class.

French singer Hoshi has received threats on social media platforms after she kissed one of her dancers during the performance of Amour Censure.

Twitter has censored a cartoon by Charb, who was killed in the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris.

Kanata, a play portraying Canadian Indigenous history, was cancelled after some co-producers withdrew funding following “aggressive controversy”.

A play set to be performed in private catholic schools was cancelled over its gender equality material; the decision was reversed days later.

On 22 September 2017, a “Nos Années Folles” film poster, featuring nudity and a transvestite man, was removed from a cinema in Senlis by a public servant.

Louvre Museum management censored Dutch collective Atelier Van Lieshout's sculpture “Domestikator”, which they deemed indecent and could trigger violence.

On 15 July 2017, Paris police cancelled a concert by Congolese musician Héritier Watanabe after the venue received multiple threats of "a new Bataclan".