A club in southern Germany has started ejecting refugees from its premises, leading to accusations of racism. But it says it is simply trying to protect its female clientèle.
The situation escalated when a couple of local guests saw what was happening and accused the bouncers of being "Nazis pigs", according to a version of the story given by the club on Facebook.
However, the club sought to explain in its Facebook post that the it was not motivated by racism.
"It was never an issue for us what religion, background or skin colour guests have. Everyone comes in as long as he respects a few basic, self-evident rules,“ the post explains.
When refugees began to arrive in Bad Tölz early in 2015 the club had allowed them in just like any other customers, the post claims.
But young male asylum seekers began harassing women in the establishment, following them to the toilets or calling them "whores“ and offering them money for sex, according to the Facebook post.
The nightclub writes that it faces a dilemma. On the one hand it could ignore the problem and face losing more and more of its old clientèle, as women become more reluctant to drink there.
http://www.thelocal.de/20151111/club-bans-refugees-after-complaints-from-women
The situation escalated when a couple of local guests saw what was happening and accused the bouncers of being "Nazis pigs", according to a version of the story given by the club on Facebook.
However, the club sought to explain in its Facebook post that the it was not motivated by racism.
"It was never an issue for us what religion, background or skin colour guests have. Everyone comes in as long as he respects a few basic, self-evident rules,“ the post explains.
When refugees began to arrive in Bad Tölz early in 2015 the club had allowed them in just like any other customers, the post claims.
But young male asylum seekers began harassing women in the establishment, following them to the toilets or calling them "whores“ and offering them money for sex, according to the Facebook post.
The nightclub writes that it faces a dilemma. On the one hand it could ignore the problem and face losing more and more of its old clientèle, as women become more reluctant to drink there.
http://www.thelocal.de/20151111/club-bans-refugees-after-complaints-from-women
