The case continues to grow: an investigation has been opened for death threats against the journalist of the French program “Forbidden Zone”, Ophélie Meunier. The latter was placed under police protection, following the broadcast of a report on radical Islam. The director and a lawyer testifying in the documentary find themselves in the same situation.
How to explain such tensions? They come more than a year after the assassination of Professor Samuel Paty who had shown caricatures of Muhammad to his students. And in a context where the threat of Islamist terrorism in France remains strong. How to inform without blowing on embers? Where to place freedom of expression?
-Philippe Gaudindirector of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Secularism (IREL), Institute of the Practical School of Higher Education, author of the book Storm on secularism: how to reconcile France with itselfRobert Laffont editions
– Christine Guimonnet Professor of History and Geography and General Secretary of the Association of History and Geography Teachers (APHG)in June 2021, the association created the Samuel Paty Prize
– Mohammad Collinco-founder of the Muslim news site SaphirNews.