The manager of a Poitevin restaurant filed a complaint on Friday May 20 after receiving around fifteen death threats. “Racist” can we read Saturday on the storefront. Everything started from a video posted Wednesday, May 18 on Twitter showing a woman dressed in black who dances on the terrace of the establishment. Immediately, the message containing the video goes viral.
Controversy around a “blackface”
Owner hosts Wednesday night a bachelorette party for young girls, “suit“. About twenty guests show up in ”Top Gun, as a convict, as the Virgin Mary” and the future bride in “martinican“. According to several testimonies, she thus wishes “rpay tribute to his grandmother“ Martinican. During the evening, a passer-by calls out to her about her “black face”, which consists of making up your face in black.
Then, a video taken by a passerby made the rounds on social networks. Since then, the restaurateur has faced an outpouring of hatred: dozens of calls, emails, death threats, explains a source familiar with the matter.
“He’s a collateral victim”
“The restaurateur is in no way responsible, he’s a collateral victim“explains the representative of SOS Racisme dans la Vienne, an association that supports him.Black face is a racist practice, it’s not humor” strongly condemns Cheikh DIABY, who will also file a complaint in the coming days against the perpetrator, the future bride. The association for the fight against racism and discrimination has received dozens of calls from Poitevins and Poitevins feeling aggrieved.
According to several corroborating sources, theThose present at the restaurant would be trainees from the municipal police.