On May 23, Darmanin will receive the author, victim of online attacks since the publication of her book on the Muslim Brotherhood in January and whose conference has been postponed for security reasons.
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin will receive anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler on May 23, author of a book on the Islamist movement of the Muslim Brotherhood and whose postponement of the conference on this subject has provoked strong reactions, indicated Friday the ministry.
The researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) was to present this Friday at the Sorbonne University his latest book on the Muslim Brotherhood movement, “The Brotherhood and its networks, the investigation”, published in January. But the conference was suspended, then postponed to June 2, at the request of the Faculty of Letters of the university.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research judged Wednesday “intolerable that academic freedom can be challenged by the slightest threat against it”.
Under police protection
Security measures? Censorship? This postponement aroused strong reactions and generated questions about his motives, while Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, researcher at the CNRS, had to be placed under police protection after death threats, according to her lawyer.
Gérald Darmanin had indicated Thursday that he was going to receive the anthropologist. “It will be May 23,” the ministry said on Friday.
On Tuesday, the anthropologist had deplored an “impediment to work and to report on (his) work”.
Founded in 1928 in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood movement carries the project of a conservative political Islam. He is now considered a “terrorist” in Egypt.
