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Fashion chain Zara withdraws handbag with swastika

By Reuters

MADRID - Spanish fashion chain Zara has withdrawn a handbag from its stores after a customer in Britain complained swastikas were embroidered on it.

Zara, owned by the world's second largest fashion retailer Inditex, said it did not know the $78 handbag had green swastikas on its corners.

The bags were made by a supplier in India and inspired by commonly used Hindu symbols, which include the swastika.

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The original design approved by Zara did not have swastikas on it, Inditex said.

"After the return of one bag we decided to withdraw the whole range," said a spokesman for Inditex, which has more than 3,330 stores in 66 countries.

Zara pulled the bags after 19-year-old Rachel Hatton told Britain's Daily Mail she asked for a refund when she spotted swastikas on her bag.

"The shop assistants were quite shocked as well to find out this symbol was on there," she told BBC radio.

A British anti-fascism group said the bags were an attempt to legitimise fascism and the Daily Star tabloid newspaper ran a picture of Adolf Hitler next to its story headlined, "Fury over Nazi Fashion Bags."

The swastika is an ancient religious symbol for Hindus and Buddhists, and has represented the sun, strength and good luck to many groups around the world.

It was adopted as the symbol of the Nazi Party in 1920.

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1.	I have one...it`s quite stylish	23:22	\|	Hand	20/09/07

2.	Headline???	23:48	\|	Axel	20/09/07

3.	designer knew nothing about it	00:14	\|	tobia	21/09/07

4.	Axel	00:26	\|	Netanel	21/09/07

5.	No you dont..you are just saying that.	02:41	\|	Av	21/09/07

6.	SORRY ABOUT CONFUSION	03:20	\|	TOBIA	21/09/07

7.	now fashionable bags are "antisemitic" ?	03:37	\|	nobodysacred	21/09/07

8.	People the swastika is actually a symbol of peace	05:35	\|	GET OVER IT!	21/09/07

9.	Fashion Statement	06:01	\|	Barney Panofsky	21/09/07

10.	Reversal swastika	06:22	\|	Criss	21/09/07

11.	#8 The KKK considered the hanging noose a symbol of peace	07:21	\|	Carlos Murphy	21/09/07

12.	She knew what she was doing	07:24	\|	Morrie	21/09/07

13.	#10 Criss	07:51	\|	Rowan Berkeley	21/09/07

14.	totally deliberate	03:06	\|	Hamite	26/09/07

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