Although he’s no stranger to controversy, the filming of Mel Gibson‘s new movie, How I Spent My Summer, is really pissing off Mexican citizens.
Protesters gathered at the Mexican prison where the film is being shot to show their dismay at relocating 300 inmates to four other facilities throughout the country. People in the US may not care what prisoners think, but in Mexico, family members are the only means of clothing and food for the incarcerated.
The director of the Ignacio Allende prison in Veracruz, Gerardo Duran, verified that 1,200 inmates were still at the jail, yet more will be removed if necessary.
“No one with production asked for this transfer,” said Gibson’s publicist Alan Nierob. “What they do and how they do it is their business, it doesn’t involve my client at all.”
Considering prison overcrowding is a huge problem in Mexican prisons, it wouldn’t be surprising for more than 5 inmates to share a cell. Those 300 demonstrators, who showed up to protest the film, are citing hardships to the inmates and their family members and holding signs that read, “Mel Gibson, it’s your fault they are moving our family members.”
Indeed it is!
[Image via WENN.]
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