A Paris court convicted former Christian Dior designer John Galliano for making anti-Semitic insults and handed down a suspended sentence of €6,000 ($8,400) in fines. He was found guilty of making "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity." He was accused of making the insults at a Paris bar on two separate incidents. In one of the incidents he said he loved Hitler and told the person "people like you would be dead." The incidents cost Galliano his job. He initially told the court he had been under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs and couldn't recall the incidents in question He was not present at Thursday's court hearing.
