A tireless defender of the animal cause, Brigitte Bardot launched on Monday an appeal to President Emmanuel Macron for the abolition of hunting in hounds and sent him a sonotone … to be heard.
“I go to war. I want the abolition of hunting. It’s a horror (…). It is absolutely necessary that the French government agrees to offer me, after 50 years of unanswered request, at least this victory, “said the former film star, in an interview with the BFMTV channel, of which an extract was released on Monday morning.
Brigitte Bardot had not expressed herself in front of a camera for 11 years, and said goodbye to the cinema over 50 years ago.
The former myth of French cinema says that she had the idea of sending hearing prostheses to political leaders. “The Brigitte Bardot Foundation offers you the means to hear its requests,” it is written on the box.
“You have to put the laughs on my side,” defended Brigitte Bardot whose interview, from her house in Saint-Tropez, is broadcast in full Monday at 9 p.m. The one who has just celebrated her 90th birthday in the fall says that it is her “last fight”.
Courre hunting, formerly practiced the kings of France, is to have a wild animal pursued by a pack of dogs. It has around 10,000 practitioners in France, where its supporters defend a tradition over 600 years old.
In an open letter to the president, the head of government François Bayrou and to the parliamentarians, transmitted to AFP, it denounces a “wild and inhuman practice”, and recalls that France “remains (with Ireland) the last European country to () still authorize”.
“It is never too late to do well,” she said to the address of the head of state she had met in 2018 and which she deplores that he “did nothing” either to “abolish hippophagy” (consumption of horse meat), as she has also been claiming for a long time.
Since 2018, she says she had no contact with President Macron and says he is disappointed. “It’s not just me. We are a battalion of disappointed ”.
Two years ago, she sent him a letter in which she “yell at her” for her inaction against animal suffering.
