Saturday, February 26, 2011

Alcohol and insults, Dior suspends Galliano

The decision comes after French fashion designer for the detention of "mild violence" and "anti-Semitic and racist insults" to a couple and is temporary, "Galliano - said in a statement the Director General of the House of Dior, Sidney Toledano - is suspended from his duties pending the outcome of the investigation.

" In the note, Toledano also reaffirms its "zero tolerance policy towards any statements or anti-Semitic or racist attitude." 'Racial slur' - Galliano, considered the haute couture French child prodigy, was arrested Thursday evening for several hours while intoxicated, police in Paris on charges of "mild violence" and "insulting anti-Semitic and racist.

" The well-known designer, who took the reins of the creations by Dior in 1996, would be taken if a couple in a Parisian café in the Marais, one of the most chic and fashionable in the French capital. "For now we do not know the reasons which led him to pick on this couple - a police source said - we do not know if you knew or not." Attacked the couple filed a complaint against him.

According to the two, felt by Europe 1 radio Friday, the designer, drunk, he yelled: "Dirty Jew, you should be dead 'and' bastard of an Asian, I will kill you." These insults have been denied by the office of Galliano, Stephane Zerbib, arguing instead that his client has never said these words, and that witnesses can attest.

The agents who arrested Galliano, have taken to the eighth district and subjected to blood alcohol test, which proved positive (1.1 mg of alcohol g / l, when the limit in France is 0.25). The designer was born 50 years ago in Gibraltar, was later released pending formal charges. 'The suspension of Galliano is a necessary act, but a bit' too much '.

This is the conviction of Donatella Versace, who said the story met the press before the Galliano fashion show of his label in Milan. "Racism is terrible and condemned him, but I do not think - he said - we have thought that Galliano is a person of kindness and a serious note, is a great creator who has given so much and has so much to give but does not warrant any kind of racism.

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