PARIS, April 16 (UPI) -- Brigitte Bardot, the French movie actress turned animal rights activist, says she is being harassed by anti-racism groups.
Bardot, 73, has drawn criticism and legal charges for her comments denouncing the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep without first stunning them.
A prosecutor in Paris Tuesday recommended she receive a two-month suspended prison sentence and a $25,000 fine for inciting racial hatred in a letter she wrote to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in December 2006. A verdict is expected June 3.
"We're fed up with being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts," she wrote in that letter, which was run in a French magazine.
Bardot, who has been convicted on similar charges four times in the past 11 years, didn't attend her hearing Tuesday but issued a statement through her lawyer in which she said she was "appalled" by the criticism levied against her, which she labeled "harassment."
"I will never be quiet," she said, until the ritual slaughtering practices are changed.
