A video of fashion designer John Galliano saying he loves Hitler has emerged after he was suspended from the Christian Dior fashion house for allegedly harassing a couple, using anti-Semitic and racist slurs.
The video, posted Monday on the website of the British The Sun newspaper, shows Galliano yelling at a different couple at the same cafe at a different time, and captures him saying "I love Hitler." He also tells the couple "People like you would be dead. Your mothers, your forefathers, would all be f**king gassed."
Last week's altercation, which resulted in Galliano's suspension, took place at a central bar in Paris between Galliano, chief designer for Christian Dior, who had been drinking, and a couple - a Jewish woman and an Asian man - that he did not know, on Feb. 24.
Galliano reportedly said, "dirty Jewish face, you should be dead" to Geraldine Bloch, 35, according to the French daily le Figaro, which had access to police reports with eyewitness accounts of the event.
Le Figaro reported that Galliano then grabbed Bloch by the hair, and shouted at her companion, Philippe Virgiti, 41, "F**king Asian bastard, I will kill you."
The sought-after designer was taken into custody, questioned by police, and tested for blood-alcohol levels, before being quickly released.
Galliano denies making any racist statements, and filed an official complaint for libel one day later on Feb. 25, after being temporarily suspended from his job at Dior.
