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05-08-2004, 11:10 AM
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Bardot in tears at race-hate trial
PARIS (Reuters) - Brigitte Bardot, the French former film goddess turned animal-rights activist, broke down in tears when she left a Paris courtroom after testifying at her latest trial on charges of inciting racial hatred.
Bardot, 69, previously convicted of similar offences, is on trial over her book "A Scream in the Silence", an outspoken attack on gays, immigrants and the jobless which shocked France. Bardot, in her 1960s heyday the epitome of French feminine beauty, told Thursday's hearing that France was going through a period of decadence and said she opposed inter-racial marriage. "I was born in 1934, at that time inter-racial marriage wasn't approved of," she said. Of her prose style, Bardot said, "I'm not Balzac", a reference to the 19th century French literary great. That drew a wry, "The court had noticed," from the presiding judge. In her book, the former film idol attacks homosexuals as "fairground freaks", condemns the presence of women in government and denounces the "scandal of unemployment benefit". She also criticised the "Islamisation of France" -- which has a five million strong Muslim minority -- and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam". The book, published last year, dismayed a country whose national football team was held up as a model of the nation's ethnic integration following its 1998 World Cup victory. LINK 
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05-08-2004, 01:45 PM
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Glad I don't live in France.
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I represent the angry, gun toting meat eating people. ~ Denis Leary The same shepherd that keeps the wolves away leads the flock to the slaughterhouse. The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist.
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