Disgust expressed at incident at BFI screening of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in London

Staff at the British Film Institute have been accused of forcibly removing a woman with Asperger’s from the cinema in what onlookers described as a “disgusting” sign of “naked intolerance”.

The 25-year-old woman was watching a screening at the BFI’s cinema on London’s South Bank of her favourite film – the spaghetti western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly directed by Sergio Leone – with her sister. Witnesses claim she was asked to leave for laughing too loudly.

One cinema-goer, Lloyd Shepherd, expressed his disgust after the incident. He claimed: “She’d been laughing very loudly but at moments which were supposed to be funny. Some people complained. She was dragged out shouting: ‘I’m sorry, I have Asperger’s.’ She was incredibly upset.”

He added that some people applauded the woman being removed while others were upset, with a large number leaving.

Wtf. Have just witnessed a woman with Aspergers being forcibly removed from a @BFI screening. Why? Because someone complained about her laughing. I feel sick to my stomach #bfi

— Amie-Jo (@amiejolocke) April 29, 2018

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