John Galliano Found Guilty, Slapped With Suspended Fine & No Jail Time

The verdict is in: John Galliano will have to pay.

As of Thursday morning, French courts have convicted designer John Galliano for anti-Semitic slurs and hit him with a suspended fine, AP reports.

AP adds that the total fine is around 6,000 euros, or about $8,400.

The amount is less the original called-for sum, as the maximum penalty for Galliano's crimes (insult on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion) is around $32,000 (22,500 euros).

Prosecutors had previously called for a fine of at least 10,000 euros (around $14,000) as well as no jail time, as the maximum Galliano faced under the law was six months, AP reported.

Galliano’s lawyer Aurélien Hamelle had argued for his client for be acquitted.

While Galliano did appear in court back in June to make a case for himself, he was not in attendance today to hear the verdict. As reported from the trial, Galliano had said that he wished to be there but was afraid of being hounded by press.

The 50-year-old British designer was charged with "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity" stemming from two separate incidents at a Parisian cafe, in which he spouted off comments about Jews as well as Asians to fellow cafe-goers. Around the time of the incident, The Sun also dug up a video in which Galliano goes on an anti-Semitic diatribe, saying "I love Hitler."

Almost immediately after the scandal broke, Galliano was fired from his post as creative director of Christian Dior.

During his June 22 trial, Galliano blamed a trio of addictions -- to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills -- as well as industry pressures, saying that the man that night was not truly Galliano. He pointed to his fashions as evidence, saying, "You can say that I embrace every race, creed, sexuality . I strive for diversity in my creations."

Comments

[Aitch5]

06:23 PM on 09/11/2011

waiting now for the "comeback."

[mondialcorp2007]

02:10 PM on 09/10/2011

GREAT TALENT A GREAT GUY AND A GREAT FUN LOVING PERSON. ALMOST THE TOP DESIGNER IN THE WORLD. ALL THESE US PHONIES LIKE RALPH LAUREN,CALVIN KLEIN,TOMMY HILFINGER ARE JUST LUCKY THE US MARKET HAS NO IDEA WHAT FASHION IS. RALPH LAUREN ESPECIALLY IS THE BIGGEST RIP OFF IN THE USA MAKING 90% OF HIS FASHION IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES AND PUTTING AN AMERICAN FLAG ON THE LOGO. JOHN WE LOVE YOU....SO YOU WERE STONED....ARENT MOST OF THE FASHION AND MOVIE INDUSTRY?

[scorpiascorpio]

06:40 PM on 09/10/2011

Is there a reason why you're yelling?

[zombywulf]

06:06 PM on 09/11/2011

those who yell have no valid point to make so they do it to shout down those who do.

[Winston Grant]

01:07 PM on 09/10/2011

He's a 120-lb. French guy. I don't think he's starting his own Aryan Nations chapter.

[Cynth]

10:41 PM on 09/10/2011

He's English.

[Winston Grant]

09:39 PM on 09/11/2011

English-- PRETENDING to be French-;What OTHER Englishman dresses like Galliano?
name ONE.

[chuckinla]

06:29 AM on 09/10/2011

Please start designing again John!! The fashion world is so boring without your genious!!

[Max Shaw]

01:48 PM on 09/09/2011

Eh...If everytime someone was brought to court over something anti-semetic being said, Mel Gibson would have numerous consecutive life-sentences.

[edgebysuccess]

02:54 PM on 09/10/2011

but Mel Gibson is in the United States, not Europe, where you should be.

[Brian Gorrell]

10:29 AM on 09/09/2011

JG is a fashion genius and I don't really care about this nonsense.
He said some rubbish, was punished.
Let's move on France haters.
Yes he is a bit of a drunk and not so nice in other regards.
But PLEASE, could you imagine the Americans who would be imprisoned for calling Barack N8775R?
The prisons would be packed out.
American hypocrisy is astounding.
I'd rather live in France any day than in the yankstates..
I've actually been to France unlike most people who comment about France.
Ignorant people.
France is AMAZING and so is JG!

[WyckedNite]

12:32 PM on 09/10/2011

Dude.
What were YOU smokin' when you went to France??

Peuple français sont des personnes peu avec ego démesuré, n'est pas? Et vous?- un troll sans classes. And this 'ignorant American' can say that in Italian & German, if you'd rather.

I've "actually been to France," too (shocking, but yes, other commoners--besides yourself--have been there). In fact, I've been there numerous times.

A more RUDE bunch of elitists I have NEVER met.
I don't care that people make it out to be the Fashion center (it's not), people pee on the sidewalk there. And I'm not talking about alleyways or even the corner of a building--we're talking FULL FRONTAL on the corner of the street as pedestrians & cars pass.
*(yeah, THAT'S an advanced society!).

And JG? He is a very good representation of the bigoted and entitled attitude of the French I've been around (unequivocally). So who cares if he's a genius? Let him be a POOR genius.

p.s. at least we agree on one thing--I'D rather you live in France than some yankstates, TOO.

[Hajnal]

04:54 PM on 09/14/2011

Pourtant, plus RUDE que vous, faut le faire....

[mondialcorp2007]

02:12 PM on 09/10/2011

100 CORRECT...BUT YOU SEE MOST OF THE BIG BUSINESS IN FASHION IS CONTROLLED BY THE JEWS. TAKE IT FROM ME I AM IN THE BUSINESS AND A JEW.
JOHN IS A GREAT DESIGNER...AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE.

[Fellerbie]

09:45 AM on 09/09/2011

Zero % class Zero% taste 100% ass*ole

[tccat4]

04:52 AM on 09/09/2011

Only in France, at least we have freedom of speech. If it wasnt for America the French would be speaking German...lol

[sensimilla]

02:58 PM on 09/09/2011

if it wasn't for france, America would still be part of the UK. Time to let go of the America as the great white knight imagery.

[Reggie Licious]

03:25 PM on 09/09/2011

Good point! :-)

[tccat4]

03:54 AM on 09/10/2011

Could be, since the Dutch came to its shore's in the late 1500"s

[mondialcorp2007]

02:14 PM on 09/10/2011

YOU MUST BE A PERSON THAT IS LIVING FROM THE PAST. FACE THE FACTS THE WAR IS OVER...MOVE ON AND GO OUT AND BUY YOUR GRANDCHILDREN SOME MORE CLOTHES.

[zombywulf]

06:10 PM on 09/11/2011

Stop screaming TROLL

[rsgreyfox1]

04:00 AM on 09/09/2011

AWW the man loves Hitler....How sweet.
Well, a cockroach likes garbage and, one calls in an exterminater.

[Osvaldo Villar]

03:04 AM on 09/09/2011

It is a quite moderate sentence, he is out of the whole thing and it is quite clear that he is not racist. I want to point out that he regrets all that happenned.
Oswaldo Villar

[UKVisitor]

11:39 AM on 09/09/2011

With respect Oswaldo I do not think it is at all clear that he is not a racist. I would argue that the evidence suggests that he is a racist.

[XxDisfngustedxX]

02:54 PM on 09/09/2011

He said what he said to hurt someone's feelings. Have you never had fight with your mother? Ever told her you hated her in the heat of an exchange? Did you mean it?

[mikiebagles]

01:51 AM on 09/09/2011

fairytale clothes who would go out wearing this junk.all park ave wannabes. silly people

[mondialcorp2007]

02:15 PM on 09/10/2011

THE FAIRY CLOTHES MAKE HIM SO GREAT.MAYBE YOU SHOULD BY A PAIR OF HIS INFLATABLE PENIS UNDERWEAR TO MAKE YOU MORE A MAN.

[mikiebagles]

11:36 PM on 09/11/2011

hey this guy looks like he belongs on top of a cake. along with you.

[Gadgetman]

12:35 AM on 09/09/2011

Freedom of speech means you can say what you want. It doesn't mean everything you say will be consequence free. Get that Galliano?

[thereisonlyoneparty]

07:38 AM on 09/09/2011

Not quite.

There are moral  restrictions on speech in civil and criminal code.

This goes so far as to result in imprisonment and fines for unpopular speech.  It also results in advertisements being removed for being in the style of religious works and resulting religious people to be offended.

The guy lost his position.  That is all that needs to happen.  The government does not need to get involved.

[Gadgetman]

11:35 AM on 09/09/2011

Fair point. However, legally you can't falsely yell fire in a crowded theater because of the danger it causes. Galliano wouldn't have been fined here in the USA but in Europe, they consider hate speech as a form of danger because of it's power to incite others. That says more about people in Europe than the law.

[Reggie Licious]

03:21 PM on 09/09/2011

The government (legislative power) provided the laws, it's up to the executive power to enforce it. If the law is there, of course it should be enforced.

It's your opinion that it should be enough if the guy got fired, but not everyone's required to agree. The law in France disagrees with you for blatant cases such as this (which requires someone to file a complaint, I believe, I do not think that the police would act without a complaint in this case even if the video was publicized). That's quite a big difference in my opinion.

[ninja108]

12:13 AM on 09/09/2011

It seem justice was serve to John Galliano for making anti-semitic slur. One would think in the
21st century we would watch what we say or do to people of color, religion or their culture. John
Galliano should be held accountable for his action & understand that some racial or sexual slurs
are not tolerated anymore. You reap what you sow.

[jerabbit]

11:56 PM on 09/08/2011

Does this guy look like this on purpose?

[scorpiascorpio]

06:55 PM on 09/10/2011

LOL! :D

[grannyfly16]

07:27 PM on 09/08/2011

Regardless of what country, you resides in a form of respect and boundaries should apply to all individuals.Words do hurt and that saying is old as dirt to help you overcome mean things said in the south in the 50's and 60's and it saved many lives.We all know now that our parents used what tools they had for us to protect ourselves and keep our vision and dreams alive and know when an opportunity for our gifts/passions to embraced with dignity and respect.A respected person like John Galliano did what ,a man with his positon do all the time a tongue lashing to ignorance that didn't recognize him and all the pressure and substance enhanced his rage and I hope he will become the man that his creative arts displays in a diverse manner.