Thursday, March 29, 2012

Guerlain racism

  • By CECILE BRISSON Associated Press PARIS (AP) - A French court convicted longtime perfume maker Jean-Paul Guerlain on Thursday of making racist insults on national television and fined him รข‚¬6,000 ($8,000).
  • (msnbc.com)
  • A Paris court was to decide Thursday whether Jean-Paul Guerlain, for decades the "nose" behind the world-famous perfume brand, was being racist when he said that he "worked like a negro.
  • (Raw Story)
  • Several anti-racism groups filed legal complaints, and protests were staged in front of the Guerlain store on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. Some called for a boycott of Guerlain products.
  • (Sydney Morning Herald)

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