RSS Feed
April 14th, 2013 
Peter Nolan The SUD-Rail statement called on SNCF to publicly condemn the incident as “unacceptable”.
Gare du Nord has a large number of workers from an ethnic minority in its
workforce, many of whom live in the suburbs of Paris.
SNCF initially blamed the discrimination on “security protocol”
advised by the French Interior Ministry and the Israeli Embassy in Paris,
but this has been emphatically denied by both.
Instead, the order came from SNCF management, with a spokesman for the
state-run company pledging “a full investigation”.
The row is particularly embarrassing for SNCF because of the part it played in
the Holocaust during the Second World War.
In 2011 the organisation made its first formal public apology to Holocaust
victims, many of whom had been entrained to death camps in Germany on lines
which ran out of Gare du Nord.
France has the largest Muslim population in western Europe, with up to six
million living in the country.
Related posts:
Views: 0
Posted in 
Tags: 
