The actress was continued, Thursday, by the judicial court of Saint-Denis of the meeting for his remarks on the reuniones she had qualified in 2019 in an open letter “of Aboriginal people” to the “wild genes” .
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“Serious, racist and repeated insults that attack the citizens of the meeting as a whole.” Whistling “inadmissible” writings, the Assistant Prosecutor of the Judicial Tribunal of Saint-Denis of the meeting required, Thursday 7 October, a fine of 25,000 euros against Brigitte Bardot. The actress was judged in his absence for “public insults of racial and religious nature”.
On March 19, 2019, the activist of animal welfare had sent to the prefect of the meeting an open letter to his foundation in which she said to be “invaded of letters denouncing the barbarity that the reunioness exercise on animals “. 87 year old, the old star of the French cinema evoked the case of “injured, poisoned and amputated” animals. It also targeted the allegedly common practice of using cats or dogs as bait for shark fishing as well as “goats and goose beheads during Tamoules Indian holidays”.
“Aboriginal people kept their wild genes,” concluded Brigitte Bardot. “All of this has reminiscences of cannibalism of past centuries” (…) “I am ashamed of this island, from the savagery that reigns there again.” The ex-actress and singer also described the reunionaire of “degenerate population still impregnated Ancestral customs, barbaric traditions that are their strains “.
” That’s enough! We are in 2021 “
The open letter had also been addressed to several media from the island that had published it by denouncing its content. At the meeting, these outrages had aroused a wave of indignation. The League of Human Rights, the movement against racism and for friendship between peoples (MRAP), the International League against Racism and Antisemitism (LICRA) and SOS Racism, and the Federation of Associations and Groupings Hindu and cultural religious Tamils of the meeting were civilized. Like MP Jean-Hugues Ratenon (France Insouchaise) came to the hearing.
Brigitte Bardot brings back the reunion of strain to “Animality, leaving them from humanity and civilization,” lamented M e Fabrice Saubert for the League of Human Rights . “It’s basically racist and hurtful.”
Other civil party lawyer, M e Alex Vardin sees in Brigitte Bardot, already five times condemned for insults or provocation to hatred, “a reminiscence of colonialistic thought spent with his opposition between savages and civilized. And that in a country where there was the black code. That’s enough! We are in 2021 “.
The lawyer of the activist of the animal cause recalled that “M me Bardot had sent a letter to the investigating judge to apologize and make his mea culpa”. “I wrote with my heart and with my rage,” she explained by talking about a “reaction of despair and anger”. According to M e Catherine Moissonnier, Brigitte Bardot was instead in the approach of an alert launcher on “Animal abuse that is real at the meeting. We must stop getting the face” .
The judgment will be rendered on 4 November.