Brigitte Bardot speaks in front of a camera for the first time in eleven years and calls for the abolition of hunting with hounds.

A tireless defender of animal rights , Brigitte Bardot launched an appeal to Emmanuel Macron on Monday, May 12, for the abolition of hunting with hounds and sent him a hearing aid... to make herself heard. "I'm going to war. I want hunting with hounds abolished. It's a horror (...) . The French government absolutely must agree to offer me, after fifty years of unanswered requests, at least this victory," the former film star said in an interview with BFM-TV , an excerpt of which was broadcast Monday morning.

Brigitte Bardot, who said goodbye to cinema more than fifty years ago, had not spoken in front of a camera for eleven years.

The former legend of French cinema says she had the idea of ​​sending hearing aids to politicians. "The Brigitte Bardot Foundation offers you the means to hear her requests," the box reads. "We must get the laughers on my side," defended Brigitte Bardot, whose interview, filmed in her house in Saint-Tropez, will be broadcast in full on Monday at 9 p.m. The actress, who celebrated her 90th birthday in the fall, claims that this is her "last fight."

Hunting with hounds, a practice once enjoyed by the kings of France, involves having a pack of dogs chase a wild animal . It has around 10,000 practitioners in France, where its supporters defend a tradition that is more than six hundred years old.

In an open letter to the President of the Republic, the head of government, François Bayrou, and parliamentarians, sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP), she denounces a "savage and inhumane practice" , and recalls that France "remains [along with Ireland] the last European country to still authorise it" . "It is never too late to do the right thing" , she says again to the head of state, whom she met in 2018 and whom she deplores for having "done nothing" either to "abolish hippophagy" (the consumption of horse meat), as she has also been calling for for a long time.

Since 2018, she says she has had no contact with President Macron and is disappointed: "It's not just me. There are a whole battalion of disappointed people." Two years ago, she sent him a letter in which she "scolded " him for his inaction against animal suffering.