The researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) was to present this Friday at the famous Parisian University of the Sorbonne. Her latest book on the movement of the Muslim Brotherhood, "The Brotherhood and its networks, the investigation", published in January.
Florence Bergeaud-Blackler had to be placed under police protection after death threats, according to her lawyer. The Grand Orient de France said it "fully" supported the anthropologist, judging that "the censorship of the freedom of expression is an attack on all of our freedoms and democracy"