The video shows three people meeting for a disguised evening, and arouses controversy on social networks. We see there a first woman dressed in a boubou, blackened face, which specifies that “there is absolutely no racist remarks in the story of this evening”. She is joined by a second woman, also disguised with a boubou and a man imitating a gorilla. On social networks, Internet users denounce in particular a “racist” “blackface”.
Two of the protagonists, the second woman in boubou and the man, have been recognized by internet users as employees of the French Slip, a clothing brand that employs 300 people in France.
Sanctioned by their company
In a press release, Le Slip Français said it was “shocked” and firmly condemned this act. “Any racist or discriminatory demonstration is not acceptable to our company,” he wrote, indicating that “the employees concerned have been summoned and sanctioned”, without giving further details on the terms of the sanction.
Management then reminded its employees of their responsibility in their role as citizens “in the public sphere as in the private sphere”.
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