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Reuters
Reuters
Published
Feb 25, 2011
Feb 25, 2011
Dior suspends Galliano pending racism inquiry
By
Reuters
Reuters
Published
Feb 25, 2011
Feb 25, 2011
Designer John Galliano attends the Dior flagship reopening party in NY (December 2010) |
Galliano was escorted home by French police late on Thursday after a drinking session that ended with him hurling insults at a couple, according to a police source.
"Dior affirms with the utmost conviction its policy of zero tolerance towards any antisemitic or racist words or behaviour," Dior Chief Executive Sidney Toledano said in a statement.
"Pending the results of the inquiry, Christian Dior has suspended John Galliano from his responsibilities," the fashion house, part of billionaire Bernard Arnault's LVMH luxury empire, said in the statement.
(Reporting by Lionel Laurent; Editing by James Regan)
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