Galliano guilty in anti-Semitism case – AP

PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted former Christian Dior designer John Galliano for making anti-Semitic insults and gave him a suspended sentence of euro6,000 ($8,400) in fines.

Galliano was given no prison time. He does not have to pay the fine. He didn’t attend Thursday’s court proceedings.

The Paris court found him guilty of “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity” stemming [...]

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Fashion Führer: Galliano to attend anti-Semitic trial

PARIS (Reuters) – Fashion designer John Galliano will attend in person his trial on Wednesday over charges he hurled anti-Semitic insults at customers in a cafe in a series of outbursts that have wrecked a towering career.

Galliano, 50, was fired as creative director for fashion empire Dior in March after a video surfaced online showing him, apparently inebriated, telling a woman he “loved Hitler” and [...]

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Fashion Week Führer: DIOR Fires Galliano After Racism Complaints…

Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times

John Galliano at a Christian Dior fashion show in Paris in 2010.

PARIS — The French fashion house Christian Dior said Tuesday that it would dismiss its chief designer, John Galliano, after the surfacing of a video that showed his anti-Semitic outbursts at a Paris bar.

In a brief statement, Sidney Toledano, Dior Couture’s chief executive, said he condemned ‘‘in the strongest terms’’ [...]

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