A second complaint of alleged anti-Semitism has been formally lodged against Dior’s chief designer John Galliano, who was suspended last week for spewing anti-Semitic and racial remarks at a couple at a Paris cafe.
Britain’s The Sun has posted a cell phone video featuring Galliano, 50, declaring “I love Hitler.”
In the video, Galliano appears to be seated at a bar, insulting people: “People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f—ing gassed.”
When an unnamed woman recording him asks if he has a problem, he says, “With you. You’re ugly.” She then asks where he’s from, and he says, “Your a–hole.”
Galliano is expected to meet with all three plaintiffs, including the unnamed woman, today at a police station in Paris, reports
Women’s Wear Daily.
WWD claims his lawyer has three witness statements that Galliano never made any racist or anti-Semitic remarks, including one from the designer’s chauffeur, who was present at the café.
Under French law, the making of anti-Semitic remarks qualifies as “incitement to racial prejudice,” a criminal offense that potentially carries a sentence of up to six months in prison.
