A real estate agent convicted of discrimination

At the end of November 2010, the young woman had sued the Agency to make a visit to the apartment, but she had felt a reluctance by its interlocutor to the utterance of his name. An hour later, a phone call announced that had rented the property. One of his colleagues had then recalled the Agency, claims he was looking for shelter and French-sounding name. He had obtained an appointment the same day.««Warned, the association SOS Racism was engaged in a ' testing ', that the discrimination against people with a foreign-sounding name and confirm it. The real estate agent had recognized the facts to explain that the owner wanted ' no blacks or Arabs. Agree, "as the futility, at least the illogical nature of this request", he had argued, the Court points out that that "often and without necessarily related to a xenophobic attitude, the owners who have experienced an unfortunate experience with a tenant tend to reject an application" of the same type ". In principle this kind of requests refused, as he had met it anyway because he felt indebted to the owner due to an episode that occurred some time previously."URGENT TO ACT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION.The employee who had recalled him to the prospective lessee mean that the apartment already had a buyer was sentenced to 1 000 euro fine had found. The two suspects, including the elements of personality "brings to light any tendency to xenophobia or racism", notes the Tribunal, also jointly and severally to pay 2,000 euros in damages and interest to the victim and 1 euro SOS Racism were condemned.The Association welcomes this decision, "fruit of three years of procedure, work and commitment in the fight against racial discrimination". "This work shows that there is always also urgently to take action against discrimination in housing, recreation or employment", adds SOS Racism. According to the association, the owner was persecuted, but does not properly convened.