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Brigitte Bardot has to pay a fine (archive image)
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Because acting icon Brigitte Bardot insulted the head of the French Hunters Association, she has to pay a fine of 5000 euros.
As a court in Arras in northern France decided, she also has to pay compensation and pay the court costs.
According to the public prosecutor's office, the former star actress must also delete insulting statements from 2019 about the hunters' association from the website of her animal welfare foundation.
She had called hunters, among other things, "terrorists of the animal world."
She called the French hunting association chief Willy Schraen a "blatant example" of this.
Bardot has to pay a total of 7,000 euros
The hunting association therefore received death threats and sued Bardot.
In addition to the actual fine of 5,000 euros, Bardot had to pay 1,000 euros in compensation to Schraen, the head of the hunting association, and 1,000 euros in court costs.
The 86-year-old reportedly did not appear in court.
The prosecutor had demanded a fine of 6000 euros in the process.
Bardot has been committed to animal welfare for a long time.
ptz / dpa / AFP