Founder of dance label R&S Records has been accused of racial discrimination
BBC News.“Mr Renaat Vandepapeliere is certainly not racist and everyone at R&S Records embraces equality,” added R&S co-founder Sabine Maes, who is also Mr Vandepapeliere’s wife, in a statement.Some of the BAME artists Mr Chaudhuri championed were dismissed as “terrible” and “crap”, according to text messages included in his claim.Mr Chaudhuri also alleged that Mr Vandepapeliere refused to sever ties with a recording artist who had placed anti-Semitic messages on Facebook.One post allegedly contained a photograph of Hitler captioned: “You should have listened”.“Remove his track? No way”, Mr Vandepapeliere was accused of writing, after being made aware of the messages.