THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: John Galliano will stand trial on June 22 on charges of verbally abusing three people with anti-Semitic and racist slurs, according to a Paris court.The criminal trial to determine what happened in February and October at a Paris café where the three say the 50-year-old accosted them will last a day, the court said. Galliano, who did not attend the hearing, has said he was provoked.
"The question is to know who said what at what moment," Galliano lawyer Aurelien Hamelle said before the hearing.
The Gibraltar-born designer's behaviour prompted a swift departure from the 65-year-old Paris fashion house, which also owns Galliano's namesake label. Galliano was fired less than a week after being arrested when a drunken rant led a couple to call police to a café in the fashionable third arrondissement, when a third person came forward to say she had been insulted by the designer and a video of a slurring Galliano was posted on the website of The Sun newspaper.
Galliano, who filed defamation claims against the couple in February, added to his legal turmoil last week, when he filed a criminal claim alleging his former lawyer Stephane Zerbib embezzled 2.8 million euros (£2.5 million) from Galliano's company, Cheyenne Freedom. » | Thursday, May 12, 2011
