"boycotting Paris Family Discrimination against Chinese" became a hot topic on the Chinese Internet on the 26th, resulting from a fight at the (Balenciaga) counter of Paris House, a fashion brand in Paris Spring Department Store, a well-known French mall, on the 25th. The mall and brand are accused of insulting China and discriminating against Chinese people.
On the 26th, both Paris Spring and Paris Family apologized for the incident on Sina Weibo. According to netizens, Paris family on the day of the sale of new shoes, a lot of people lined up at the scene. A Chinese aunt is waiting for a foreigner to cut a line while shopping. Auntie wants to stop, but she is pushed by the other side. The Chinese aunt's son rushed to the theory and was beaten by a group of foreigners. At last the jumper bought the shoes and the Chinese aunt was asked to leave.
Informants also said that after the clashes, "French security guards only control the Chinese people" and that "the Paris family counter insulted the Chinese who stood in line and let the Chinese get out of here." Several netizens told the same story on Weibo, and there were fighting videos as evidence, but the "Chinese aunt" in the incident did not show up.
After the incident, many people on the Paris Spring social networking site Instagram account to comment, questioning. "We are sorry that two customers quarreled this morning in the queue for the new product, and we quickly took steps to keep both sides calm," he said after a "apology" issued under the comments section in the spring of Paris. We're also trying to figure out what's going on. " This vague explanation makes Chinese netizens more angry, many people doubt that Paris spring is not sincere.
"We are extremely sorry and sorry for yesterday's incident at the Spring Department Store," said the official account of Sina Weibo in Paris on the 26th. "We sent to the two Chinese customers in the incident, all the implicated customers in the event," the official account said on the 26th. And all the affected Chinese communities to express our sincere apologies! " "reaffirm and will ensure that the attitude of equality and respect is always addressed to every customer," said Weibo of Parisianza. The French correspondent of the Global Times came to Paris in the spring on the 26th, and the head of its public relations department rejected the reporter's request for an interview, saying the incident was still under investigation, needed to be communicated by e-mail and would eventually give a formal statement.
A woman in charge of the Paris family counter told the Global Times that "yesterday's incident was a trivial matter," that is, in the queue, it seemed that someone had a conflict because of the problem of jumping in line, and the security guard of the mall took care of it at the first time. The way to deal with the conflict is to open up both sides of the conflict, absolutely not "beat up Chinese guests." She said the Parisian brand would not say anything that discriminates against or insults the Chinese. "90 percent of our guests are Asian, and insulting them is definitely not in line with our business logic," she said.
The woman in charge said she did not know the context of yesterday's conflict, but because of the number of people in line, the brand asked everyone to fill in the form in advance and write down what to buy. After the conflict, the brand stopped selling on the same day. Guests who had not had time to fill in the form were invited to leave, only to fill in the form, and there was no case of driving out Chinese guests. "We really won't treat Chinese guests like this." Salesmen at nearby brand counters also told the Global Times that she knew there had been a clash yesterday, but it soon subsided and expressed surprise at the level of attention the incident had generated online in China.