Brigitte Bardot threatens to follow Gerard Depardieu in leaving France for Russia
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Brigitte Bardot threatens to follow Gerard Depardieu in leaving France for
Russia
Former French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot on Friday threatened to follow
Gerard Depardieu in asking for a Russian passport, in protest not at tax hikes,
but at the treatment of two circus elephants.
French actress Brigitte Bardot
and French actor Gerard Depardieu Photo:
AFP
2:52PM GMT 04 Jan 2013
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Bardot's threat comes a day after fellow actor Depardieu caused a storm in
France by becoming a Russian citizen in protest at high tax rates proposed by
the Socialist government, which he accuses of penalising success.
"If those in power are cowardly and impudent enough to kill the elephants ...
then I have decided I will ask for Russian nationality to get out of this
country which has become nothing more than an animal cemetery," Bardot said in a
statement.
Bardot, who first rose to fame as a screen siren in the 1956 Roger Vadim film
"And God Created Woman", has become an increasingly controversial figure with
her outbursts on animal rights, but also on gays, immigrants and the unemployed.
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Since retiring from the screen in the 1970s she has become a semi-recluse,
devoting herself to her Brigitte Bardot Foundation for animal rights, and has
frequently taken aim at Eid al-Adha festivities when Muslims ritually slaughter
sheep.
In 2008 she was convicted for a fifth time in 11 years for incitement to
religious hatred, over a 2006 tract on Eid al-Adha in which she said the Muslim
community in France was "destroying our country by imposing its acts'.
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