Brigitte Bardot Is Handed Her Sixth Fine for “Inciting Racial Hatred”

Two years after writing an open letter where she called residents of Réunion island, a French territory in the Indian Ocean, “degenerate savages,” French actor Brigitte Bardot has been fined 20,000 euros, about $23,000, by a French court for “inciting racial hatred,” according to the New York Post. Her spokesperson, Bruno Jacquelin, was also fined for his role in disseminating her letter to news organizations, the Post added, citing a report from report from Le Figaro. In the 2019 letter, Bardot claimed that the Réunionese slaughtered goats inhumanely, calling them “natives [who] have kept their savage genes” and “a degenerate… Read Full Article