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Summary A heir to Guerlain perfume empire has gone on trial in Paris on charges of racist insults.
Jean-Paul Guerlain faces up to six months in prison and €22,500 ($29,900) in fines if convicted in the trial, which opened Thursday.Anti-racism groups filed a legal complaint after Guerlain made comments on France-2 television in 2010 referring to negroes in a derogatory way.His lawyer Basile Ader said on BFM television that Guerlain never wanted to offend anyone ... he is not a racist.Guerlain, 74, is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the Guerlain cosmetics company, now owned by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton.LVMH was embarrassed last year when designer John Galliano who worked for LVMH subsidiary Christian Dior was convicted for anti-Semitic comments.
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