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05/04/03: (AP) The director of a Paris theatre responsible for staging a play critical of George W Bush has been viciously attacked. Attilio Maggiulli, director of the Theatre of Italian Comedy, was punched and slashed with a box cutter. He was assaulted in the building's entrance, said Claudine Simon, his assistant. One man held him down, while another cut his face. They also splashed paint on the theatre walls, she said. It is unclear exactly what motivated the beating, said Ms Simon, who said she found her employer bleeding in the entrance. Since Wednesday, the theatre has been showing a play called "George W Bush, or God's Sad Cowboy". She suggested the assailants might have been offended by a poster showing a skull in a cowboy hat to represent Bush, or by a photo of an Afghan man that the theatre showed as part of its publicity display. They also insulted Jacques Chirac, one of the main opponents of the US-led war in Iraq. The play is critical of Bush but doesn't directly touch on the Arab world, Ms Simon said. The attackers fled, and Mr Maggiulli was treated at a Paris hospital. © Associated Press
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