The prosecutor’s office has learned that an investigation into discrimination based on origin, ethnicity or nationality was launched on Friday, July 22, after a video was broadcast showing black people being turned away from a restaurant in Paris.
The three young women who filmed the scene had booked a table on the evening of July 16 at the Manko restaurant, located on the very posh Avenue Montaigne at the foot of the Champs Elysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. However, made-up and well-dressed, a security guard turned them away because they weren’t wearing evening gowns, we’re heard saying in the video.
The restaurant apologized
The video was broadcast on the TikTok social network and is accompanied by the caption:My first experience of racism“, had been viewed more than 650,000 times as of Friday afternoon. “But we are wearing an evening dress. It’s a joke! (…) What should I wear?– one of the three women exclaims.
One of them films in amazement white people entering the facility without difficulty, while other blacks are denied entry. “But it shocks me, it actually exists…– he laments.
The restaurant presentedhis excusesIn a statement published on Instagram. “Manco adheres to a charter of values that promotes equality, respect, tolerance and kindness“, the institution assures, declaring that “the necessary sanctions were immediately and permanently taken“.
“The investigation of discrimination on grounds of origin, ethnicity or nationality in the offer or supply of a product or service has been entrusted to the Crime Against the Person (BRDP) Brigade,” the prosecution said.
Source: Le Figaro
