The French writer Michel Houellebecq has been charged with “complicity in inciting discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people for reasons of origin or membership or non-membership in a particular ethnic group, nation, race or religion.”
As the French newspaper Le Figaro has learned, the author had been denounced by the Union of Mosques of France (UMF) and the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP) after an interview given to Front Populaire in November 2022.
Already in 2010, when Houellebecq won the Goncourt Novel Prize with his fifth narrative, ‘La carte et le terrotoire’ (The map and the territory), he was accompanied by controversy.
In fact, he is the protagonist of phrases like ““The most idiotic religion is Islam,” “When you read the Koran your heart falls to your feet” or “child prostitution doesn’t seem like a drama to me.