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Karl Lagerfeld attacks Angela Merkel with holocaust comment
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Karl Lagerfeld walks the runway during the Chanel show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2016 on October 6, 2015 in Paris, France. (shutterstock.com/FashionStock.com/File)
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hanel designer Karl Lagerfeld is facing backlash after his comments on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open policy to immigrants.
On French TV show Salut Les Terrains, Karl said, “One cannot—even if they are decades between them—kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place.”
Karl Lagerfeld criticized how Germany has welcomed more than one million refugees from the Syrian crisis. He even went on to say, “I know someone from Germany who took a young Syrian and after four days said, ‘The greatest thing Germany invented was the Holocaust.’” He followed up by saying, “Merkel had already millions and millions (of immigrants) who are well integrated and who work and all is well … she had no need to take another million to improve her image as the wicked stepmother after the Greek crisis.”
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The French media regulatory authority Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (CSA) is currently reviewing the show and comments in question after receiving hundreds of complaints.
This is not the first time Lagerfield, a native of Hamburg, criticized Merkel. In October, the designer sketched a cartoon featuring Merkel and Hitler that served as a commentary regarding the rise of far-right political party Alternative for Germany in the recent federal election.
This article appeared on the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper website, which is a member of Asia News Network and a media partner of The Jakarta Post
