'I love Hitler': new scandal hits (British fashion designer) John Galliano

[Turborama]

Source: The Independent (UK)

By John Lichfield in Paris
Tuesday, March 01 2011

The British fashion designer John Galliano, already suspended by Christian Dior for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks, has been captured on video saying "I love Hitler" and glorifying the Holocaust.

Mr Galliano, 50, was summoned by Paris police yesterday to face three people who accused him of racially abusing them in a Parisian bar in two separate incidents. The fashion designer denies the allegations and has made counter-accusations that a couple on Thursday defamed, insulted and threatened him. However, a mobile phone video posted on the internet shows Mr Galliano making a verbal, racial attack on customers in a Paris bar in December. The Dior creative director, apparently the worse for drink, is captured in mid-argument.

A woman asks: "Are you blond, with blue eyes?" Mr Galliano, wearing a large, felt hat, replies: "No, but I love Hitler, and people like you would be dead today. Your mothers, your forefathers, would be... gassed and... dead."

In the third alleged incident, a woman approached Paris police at the weekend claiming she had suffered anti-Semitic abuse from Mr Galliano in La Perle bar in the Marais district last October.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/news/i-love-hitler-new-scandal-hits-john-galliano-2228517.html

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The article goes on to mention that racial insults under French law are punishable by fines of up to $31,000 and 6 months in prison.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Ummm... oops?

Some people shouldn't drink. What an idiot.

[Celebration]

11. Yep.

Sometimes alcohol hits the brain before the liver!

[gateley]

2. Times like these I wish I was rich and famous - I'd take to the airways boycotting this dick. nt

[krispos42]

3. Hopehe likes being obscure n/t

[emilyg]

4. Little prick belogs in jail

[Make7]

5. "People like you"? Is he not aware of Hitler's treatment of homosexuals? ( n/t )

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-pink-list-2007-the-iiosi-annual-celebration-of-the-great-and-the-gay-447627.html

[skoalyman]

6. sounds like his pilot light went out

[Firebrand Gary]

7. Dior should drop his dumb ass!

Good bye douche!

[Turborama]

13. John Galliano Fired From Dior

By HORACIO SILVA | MARCH 1, 2011, 10:40 AM

In news that will surprise absolutely no one, Christian Dior has begun proceedings to terminate John Galliano’s employment in the wake of two race-tinged scandals that have emerged in the past week.

Sidney Toledano, Dior’s president and chief executive officer, referred to Galliano’s “odious behavior” and issued a brief statement on Tuesday: “I condemn most firmly the statements made by John Galliano which are a total contradiction with the essential values that have always been defended by the House of Christian Dior.”

The dismissal comes after a second complaint alleging anti-Semitic verbal assault was filed with Paris police this week and an undated video of Galliano at a Paris bar was posted on the Internet, in which the designer slurs as he talks about his love of Hitler and makes references to people being gassed.

Neither reps for Dior or Galliano’s namesake label, which is due to show on Sunday, have announced plans to cancel the coming runway presentations. (A rep for the John Galliano label did, however, send out an e-mail on Tuesday morning, inquiring as to who would be attending the show.)

Full article: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/john-galliano-fired-from-dior/

[readmoreoften]

8. Would Hitler approve of the 50 year old man's long blonde hair extensions?

Well, I guess they are blonde...

(what a dog fart that guy is...)

[MilesColtrane]

9. In Vino Veritas, JohnnyBoy.

If there's any justice, soon your only remaining gig will be designing evening wear for soirees hosted by the National Front.

[HEyHEY]

10. When are finally gonna be able to laugh about the Holocaust...geez

Of course I'm being sarcastic.

[Octafish]

12. Would this be one of his creations?

[anamandujano]

14. It's pretty except for the swastika.

Another self destructing wunderkind. Drunken brain damaged rant or real underlying issues and beliefs? Who knows? Who cares? Alas career, we hardly knew ye. Sad.

[47of74]

15. According to CNN, he's going to be fired

According to CNN, that no good little four flushing SOB is going to be fired for his remarks;

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/03/01/portman.galliano/index.html?hpt=C2