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Brigitte Bardot receives sixth fine for “inciting racial hatred”

Two years after writing an open letter calling the residents of the island of Réunion, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, “degenerate savages”, French actress Brigitte Bardot was fined € 20,000 by a French court for “inciting racial hatred”, according to New York Post. His spokesperson, Bruno Jacquelin, was also fined for his role in disseminating the letter to news agencies, the Post he added, citing a report by Le Figaro.

In the 2019 letter, Bardot claimed that the islanders slaughtered goats in an inhumane way, calling them “indigenous [che] they have preserved their wild genes “and” a degenerate population still steeped in barbaric ancestral traditions “that evoke the” cannibalism of past centuries “, according to the Agence France-Presse.

The 87-year-old actress, known for her long modeling career and film roles including And God created the woman from 1956, she has been fined five times previously for comments attacking Islam and its followers. The last one in 2008, when it was sanctioned for 15,000 euros for another letter on the slaughter of animals that he wrote to the then Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, in which he referred to Muslims as “this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts, ”according to a BBC report.

In the years Bardot moved away from acting, she became known as an animal rights activist: “I’m not interested in looking conservative and clumsy,” she said in 2012, “I’m just trying to appease my soul and protect the animals. Her husband, Bernard d’Ormale, was an adviser to the Front National, France’s far-right party, and in 2017 Bardot gave her support to party leader Marine Le Pen.

Two of Bardot’s previous fines involved comments on Islam she had made in her books Pluto’s square e A cry in the silence. In a 2004 court appearance to defend herself from the statements in the second book, Bardot apologized but continued: “I never wanted to knowingly hurt anyone. It is not in my character. Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hooligans, like everywhere ».

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