The French judiciary is investigating a restaurant near the Champs Elysées in Paris for alleged discrimination based on origin, race or nationality after it refused to admit three black girls, according to prosecutors.
The three young women who filmed the scene booked a table for the evening of July 16 at the Manco restaurant on the prestigious rue Montaigne, adjacent to the world’s most famous avenue in the 8th arrondissement of the French capital, Paris.
Although they were elegantly dressed and wearing make-up, the guard prevented them from entering on the pretext that they were not wearing evening wear, according to a video clip filmed during the incident.
The video, which was posted with the caption “My first experience of racism”, has been viewed more than 650,000 times as of Friday afternoon on Tik Tok.
One of the three girls said: “We are in evening dresses! It must be a joke! What should we wear?
One also filmed white people easily entering the restaurant while black customers were prevented from entering under the pretense of violating the restaurant’s dress code, with a young woman saying in the video, “It’s shocking, but it really exists. “
