The Brazilian President cited the case of a black teacher in the city of Curitiba who accused a security guard of following her while shopping at an Atacadão store, which belongs to the French group Carrefour.
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The Brazilian President cited the case of a black teacher in the city of Curitiba who accused a security guard of following her while shopping at an Atacadão store, which belongs to the French group Carrefour.
The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this Monday warned the management of Carrefour that “it does not admit racism” in his country, after a new case of alleged racial discrimination in an establishment of the French group.
“We have to tell the management of Carrefour: if they want to do this in the country of origin, let them do it, but in this country we are not going to admit racism”, said Lula da Silva, at a ministerial meeting in Brasília, on the occasion of the first 100 days of its management.
The Brazilian President cited the case of a black teacher in the city of Curitiba, in the south of the country, who accused a security guard of following her while shopping at an Atacadão chain store, which belongs to the Carrefour group.
According to the newspaper O Globo, the woman, when she realized that she was being closely watched by the security guards, left, but decided to return to the supermarket and, in protest, was only in underwear to show that she was not stealing before finishing her shopping. .
Second case of alleged racism
“They committed yet another crime of racism. A Carrefour guard accompanied a black woman who was going to buy something, thinking she was going to steal. She had to stay in her bra and panties to show that she wasn’t going to steal. It is the second time that Carrefour has done this type of thing”, criticized Lula da Silva.
This is the second known case of alleged racism committed in a unit of the French network in recent days, after another similar problem denounced by a black man who is the husband of Brazilian volleyball player Fabiana Claudino.
Vinicius de Paula said on his social networks that a cashier at a Carrefour establishment in São Paulo refused to serve him in the preferential queue, despite the area being empty at the time, but moments later he received a white customer without any problems.
In a note sent to O Globo, Carrefour admitted that the volleyball player’s husband was rejected without justification and indicated that it immediately fired the cashier employee, who was on trial.
“Our policy is one of zero tolerance against any kind of disrespectful behavior” and “over the past two years, Carrefour has taken responsibility for bringing about an inside-out transformation in the fight against structural racism in the country,” the company said.
Carrefour was involved in yet another serious case of racism in 2020, when a black man was beaten to death by two white security guards in the parking lot of a supermarket in the city of Porto Alegre. Six people were formally charged with this brutal crime.
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