French TV cancels interview with 'Soumission' novelist

January 10, 2015 00:08

French television network Canal Plus today cancelled the broadcast of an interview with one of the country's top novelists about his new book imagining a France under Islamic rule.

The station said it had pulled the programme on author Michel Houellebecq because of the double "hostage-takings" by apparent jihadists in and to the north of Paris on today, it told AFP.

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