In 1997, Bardot and her publisher,
Éditions Grasset, were ordered to pay 28,000 pounds because of "hurtful remarks" about her son and former husband
Jacques Charrier contained in her autobiography. Her son and ex–husband had originally sued for more than 1 million pounds in damages.
[89] In her 1999 book
Le Carré de Pluton (
Pluto's Square), Bardot criticizes the procedure used in the
ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of
Eid al-Adha. Additionally, in a section in the book entitled "Open Letter to My Lost France", she writes that "my country, France, my homeland, my land" was "again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims". For this comment, a French court fined her 30,000 francs (about 4,200 US dollars in 2000
[34]) in June 2000. She had been fined in 1997 for the original publication of this open letter in
Le Figaro and again in 1998 for making similar remarks.
[105][106][107]
In her book, Bardot criticised
racial mixing, immigration,
the role of women in politics, and
Islam. The book also contained a section attacking what she called the mixing of genes, and praised previous generations which, she said, had given their lives to push out invaders.
[111] On 10 June 2004, Bardot was convicted for a fourth time by a French court for inciting racial hatred and fined €5,000.
[112] Bardot denied the racial hatred charge and apologized in court, saying: "I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody. It is not in my character."
[113]
In 2008, Bardot was convicted of inciting racial/religious hatred in regard to a letter she wrote, a copy of which she sent to
Nicolas Sarkozy when he was
Interior Minister of France. The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France
ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without
anesthetizing them first. She also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits". The trial concluded on 3 June 2008, with a conviction and fine of €15,000.
[114] The prosecutor stated she was weary of charging Bardot with offences related to racial hatred.
[110]
In January 2018, Bardot called all the actresses claiming to have been victims of sexual harassments "hypocrites" and "ridiculous" in an interview with Paris Match, "Many actresses flirt with producers to get a role. Then when they tell the story afterwards, they say they have been harassed ... in actual fact, rather than benefit them, it only harms them."
Bardot's husband Bernard d'Ormale is a former adviser to
Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the far-right party National Front (which became
National Rally), the main far-right party in France.
[36][104] Bardot expressed support for
Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front (National Rally), calling her "the
Joan of Arc of the 21st century".
[124] She endorsed Le Pen in the
2012 and
2017 French presidential elections.
[125][126] Bardot had been convicted of inciting racial hatred multiple times, having received six separate fines for the offense as of November 2021.
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