A French court has convicted fashion designer John Galliano of anti-Semitic behaviour and handed him a suspended sentence over his series of drunken outbursts in a Paris bar. <br /><br />The court in the French capital handed out a $8,400 suspended fine for two incidents, in February this year and October 2010.<br /><br />One of the incidents in a Parisian café made headlines around the world when mobile phone footage was posted on the internet showing an inebriated Galliano insulting other customers.<br /><br />Galliano was fired from Dior as its creative director following the incident.<br /><br />Sidney Toledano, Dior's chief executive and president, said: "The fact that the name of Dior has been linked through its designer, as brilliant as he may be, to intolerable words, is very painful for us."<br /><br />Lawyers for the Jewish couple whom he insulted said Galliano's fame and position gave him extra responsibilities. <br /><br />They said a well-known person should be even more irreproachable than people who are not famous.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from Paris.
