Michel Houellebecq has become increasingly controversial over his pessimistic views on Western civilisation’s decline, seen as aligning with the rising far right. (EPA Images pic)PARIS: Controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq was placed under formal investigation on Tuesday on suspicion of complicity in incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence, a source close to the case told AFP.
Houellebecq, 70, is arguably France's most famous writer internationally, but has grown increasingly controversial as his pessimistic views on the decline of Western civilisation are seen as aligning with the ascendant far-right.
The investigation concerns comments about Muslims published in 2022 in Front Populaire magazine.
