A cashier victim of racist insults, the customer in custody

The verbal assault had been filmed and its author found. She finds herself facing justice, in a context of negrophobic insults disseminated on social networks.

On June 4, 2021 in Annemasse, Haute-Savoie, a customer of a Carrefour store films an altercation between a cashier and a woman suspected of theft. The latter gets angry and insults the cashier with racist words: “Fuck your mother. Dirty n * gresse, dirty black. Only blacks can do that. You see Africans like you, it makes you want to kill them. Fuck your mother (…) Dirty bitch”. The next day, she posted a recording on Twitter where she accepted her words while denying being racist. On June 6, 2021, the Carrefour chain announced to file a complaint.

The woman suspected of having uttered these racist insults has just been placed in police custody, the Thonon prosecutor said on Monday, June 7, 2021. “The accused person, summoned today by the investigators, presented himself to the police station at the end of the afternoon. She was placed in police custody”, indicates Bruno Badré according to The Parisian.

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Negrophobic comments broadcast on the networks

Recently, another case of violently racist speech made the headlines. On May 30, 2021, in Cergy, a man verbally assaulted a black delivery man, sparking indignation and the opening of an investigation. The 24-year-old man was taken to court for racist violence. The Pontoise judicial court postponed the hearing to July 8. The dissemination of such videos on social networks proves the extent of the problem, already widely denounced by black people and anti-racist activists in France.

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