It took time for the CNRS to publicly show its support for anthropologist Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, a researcher who has been living under police protection since March.
After the publication in January 2023 of his book
Le Frérisme et ses Réseaux, the investigation,
prefaced by Gilles Kepel (Odile Jacob editions), the author was the victim of insults, defamatory comments and even death threats.
His investigation, which analyzes the method deployed by the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe to establish standards specific to Islamic fundamentalism, sparked a veritable cabal on social networks, which subsequently gave rise to much more serious threats.
And the anthropologist will have had to wait several weeks, punctuated by a request to the management of the CNRS, a complaint filed for death threats and light media coverage, for the institution to react publicly on Twitter, on Wednesday April 12.
The CNRS assured Le
Figaro
that it would “
never tolerate…
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