Brigitte Bardot fined $11,920 for racial hatred after claiming Muslims are destroying France

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | June 5, 2008

French film star Brigitte Bardot was today convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down a 15,000 ($11,920) fine against the former screen siren turned animal rights campaigner. A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter Bardot, 73, sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks by the star, who helped popularise the bikini during her heyday in the 1950s, were published in her foundation’s quarterly journal. In the December 2006 letter to Mr Sarkozy, now the president, Bardot said France is “tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts.”

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