(AFP) French prosecutors said Monday they have opened an investigation after death threats were issued against a journalist after she fronted a report over the rise of radical Islam in France.
Ophelie Meunier has been under police protection since the M6 channel broadcast her report on radical Islam, notably in the northern town of Roubaix near Lille.
The probe was opened by prosecutors in Nanterre outside Paris.
Roubaix resident Amine Elbahi, who denounced the rise of radical Islam in the area in the programme, was also placed under police protection.
The programme — titled “Off Limits” — included images of a Roubaix shop which sold dolls with their faces removed, with the shopkeeper saying Islam banned showing the image of a face.
