A well-known Parisian restaurant has been commended by Jewish groups after suspending employees who were photographed making an antisemitic salute.
Le Train Bleu, a restaurant in the French capital’s Gare de Lyon train station, announced a dozen staff members were suspended after a photograph cicrculated on social media last week of them performing the quenelle, the inverted Nazi salute popularised by antisemitic French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala.
The French subsidiary of SSP, a British company which owns the restaurant, said “those who have made this gesture in the form of an inverted Nazi salute… have violated the values of the company.
“We cannot ignore [the gesture’s] gravity or proven antisemitic meaning.”
