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A San Francisco judge has drastically reduced,

from 137 million dollars (about 126 million euros at current exchange rates) to 15 million dollars (13.8 million euros),

the compensation that Tesla will have to pay to a former employee victim of racism.

The first sentence was issued by another court in October 2021.

Now, the second magistrate considers that the amount of these damages

was "excessive" and exceeded the "constitutional limits" established for these matters by the Supreme Court,

according to the judicial ruling to which the AFP agency had access.

However,

he maintains Tesla's guilt

and rejects the request for a new trial: "the weight of the evidence amply supports the finding of guilt."

Tesla was sentenced in early October for turning a blind eye to the racism suffered by

Owen Diaz.

He worked as a forklift operator at the group's factory in Fremont, California

, between June 2015 and July 2016, during which time he had suffered racist abuse and a hostile work environment, according to court documents.

This type of behavior was widespread with respect to African-American employees, including Diaz's own son.

The company did not react

However, despite the complaints he made to Tesla's management, it allowed this situation to continue.

Only when the first sentence was known, the vice president of human resources, Valerie Capers Workman, admitted some of the facts in a statement.

She noted that some Freemont factory employees testified to "regularly hearing racial slurs," including the word "nigger."

But "more often than not, they thought this language was used in a friendly and general way by African-American colleagues."

The matter was then resolved with the dismissal of two workers.

In February, a California agency filed a racial discrimination complaint against Tesla at the same factory, accusing the automaker of "racial segregation" in the workplace.

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