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A troupe of actors is to carry out works of the literature and music of the 32 nations participating. Judgment Day Brigitte Bardot, the French movie star turned animal rights campaigner, was convicted of racism yesterday after making anti-Muslim remarks linked to the Islamic ritual of slaughtering sheep. A Paris courtroom imposed a $three,250 superb for racial slurs and inciting racial hatred. In April 1997, Brigitte Bardot, now 63, described Islamists as ”manic throat-cutters,” evaluating the ritual slaughter of sheep to the slayings of civilians in Algeria. The courtroom convicted her for blaming ”the Muslim neighborhood typically” for the slayings in Algeria and inciting racial hatred by warning that comparable crimes would quickly unfold to France.

Last October one other courtroom sentenced Brigitte Bardot to a superb for a similar offense.

Update: From July 2015

 “I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country.”

Brigitte Bardot went to court docket Thursday to defend herself in opposition to costs of racial bias.

The 62-year-old former display siren turned animal rights crusader is charged with”inciting racial discrimination” after talking out in opposition to Muslims for sacrificing sheep throughout their springtime vacation of Eid al-Adha.

If convicted, Brigitte Bardot faces a two yr lengthy jail sentence and a 300-thousand franc (60-thousand U-S ) advantageous.

Brigitte Bardot was managed to get contained in the court docket room without being seen, even by her supporters.

She was on the Paris “Palais de Justice” Thursday afternoon to play a job she has by no means performed earlier than – defending herself in opposition to costs of racial bias.

Thanks to her slim determine and long blond hair, Bardot turned France’s sex-symbol within the 1960’s.

Internationally, she was higher identified than De Gaulle as an immediately recognizable ambassador for France.

And she even turned a part of her nation – ornamental busts modeled after she had been positioned in most metropolis halls across the France.

In an open letter revealed in April within the conservative nationwide every day Le Figaro, Brigitte Bardot in contrast the ritual sacrifice of Eid al-Adha to “torture, signs of the most atrocious pagan sacrifices..”

On that event, 40 days after the quick of Ramadan, a lot of France’s three million Muslims sacrifice a lamb in a ceremony of peace.

Brigitte Bardot, who regret immigration and backs the far-right National Front, also claimed that France was overfloded of Muslims.

“My homeland, France – my earth, is invaded, with the blessing of successive governments, by an overpopulation of foreigners, Muslim,” she wrote.

To anti-racist teams, the phrases of the previous star are nothing greater than an incitement of racial hatred.

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“She makes Muslims the enemy to shoot, and in a context wherein France is dealing with rising racism, and rising assist to the ideology of the intense proper, it is rather harmful, and we can’t settle for that she expresses the identical sort of concepts.
So we count on court docket to deliver Brigitte Bardot again to her senses.”
Mouloud Aounit, the President of the MRAP (Movement in Opposition to Racism and for Friendship between individuals)

Bardot is married to an in-depth adviser of National Front chief Jean-Marie Le Pen.

She lately got here underneath fireplace for calling Le Pen “a very fine man” in her best-selling autobiography “Initials BB.”

And at court docket, her lawyer was attempting to reduce the injury she brought on, saying that it was much less a query of racism than a query of defending animals right.

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“Brigitte Bardot – It was urgent to act, and therefore how urgent it was for here to take measures to protect animals.”
Walerand de Saint-Just, Brigitte Bardot’s lawyer

If convicted, Bardot faces a most one year jail period and a 300-thousand franc (60-thousand U-S ) advantageous.

Increased number of Muslims in France want to keep their culture/ Islam/ Sharia– child marriage, FGM, polygamy, stoning for adultery face-veiling, homosexuality — Brigitte Bardot wants to keep European Enlightenment traditions