Judge Lucas Cavalcanti da Silva, from the 12th Civil Court of Curitiba, determined that the network of clothing stores pay R $ 30,000 compensation for moral damages to Rita Cristina de Oliveira, who was forced by a manager to open his bag.
The same amount should be paid to the mother of Rita, Gloria Maria da Costa Santiago de Oliveira, who also had to open the bag. According to the judge, there was a racist act against both, who are black.
The indemnity must be corrected by the IPCA (Official Inflation Index) and plus legal default interest as of May 19, 2018, according to the decision.
Rita was a executive secretary in the management of
According to a court case, Rita and her mother were in the store of the network of Shopping Pátio Batel, in the capital of Paraná. She was approached by the manager, who ordered them to open the bags on the grounds that she had seen a strange movement.
In the action, they said that after a salesman intervened, the manager recognized the error and apologized. Rita and Gloria Maria recorded police occurrence and the case was classified as racial injury and slander.
“The authors were placed on suspicion of the commitment of crime against the assets by the defendant’s mayor, who embarrassed them to open their scholarships for possible verification of the illicit,” writes the judge. According to him,
The former secretary and mother also asked the company to be ordered to implement quotas for black people, hire black models in their advertising campaigns, and publicly apologize to all black people victims of acts of discrimination in their stores. The judge, however, denied these requests.
Otherwise
Sought, Animale says repudiate “all forms of racism and reiterates that has always been available to collaborate with the competent authorities in all the necessary details, as well as about the actions and commitments adopted by the brand.”
“The incident does not match the good practices of the company, which reinforces its commitment to valorization and the promotion of the agenda diversity, equity and inclusion,” adds the company.
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