Actress fined and ordered to pay damages
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Former French screen siren Brigitte Bardot was fined nearly $25,000 on Tuesday after being convicted of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying her country.
The court in Paris also ordered Bardot, 73, to pay $1,555 in damages to a leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP, the Associated Press reports.
Bardot, an ardent animal-rights activist, had written a letter in December 2006 to the then-Interior Minister (and now, President) Nicolas Sarkozy in which she criticized the Muslim festival of Aid el-Kebir, which reportedly is celebrated by slaughtering sheep.
Bardot's attorney, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would discuss a possible appeal with the star, who was once considered France's answer to Marilyn Monroe.
By Stephen M Silverman
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