French novelist Michel Houellebecq has been charged in a court in Paris, France, for ‘complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group of people on account of their origin or their belonging or not belonging to a particular ethnicity, nation, race or religion’. The news was originally broken by the French news site Le Figaro on Tuesday, 10 November.
Houellebecq gave an interview to the right-wing magazine Front Populaire in November 2022. In it, he made several controversial statements about Muslim immigration.
