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- From: Francis Heaney <f_heaney AT yahoo.com>
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- Subject: [monkeywire] Rapper Fined for Hitting His Monkey
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:12:39 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1035207
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PARIS (Reuters) - A court fined French rapper Joey Starr 9,750 euros
($9,100) Wednesday after he hit his pet monkey on television, sparking
a storm of protest from animal rights activists including former film
star Brigitte Bardot.
Starr slapped the caged Barbary ape several times during a program
recorded at his home in March by the M6 commercial channel, provoking a
flood of complaints from viewers that alerted Bardot and other animal
rights groups.
The court in the Paris suburb of Bobigny found Starr, whose real name
is Didier Morville, guilty of maltreating an animal and illegally
possessing a protected species.
Barbary apes are found in bands in Algeria, Morocco and on the Rock of
Gibraltar.
Starr has a number of convictions for violence, including assaults on
an air hostess and on his partner.
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- [monkeywire] Rapper Fined for Hitting His Monkey, Francis Heaney, 06/03/2002
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