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Spanish Restaurant Chain Faces Racism Allegations After Employee Refuses to Serve Moroccan Customers
Thursday 26 December 2019, by
Three young people of Moroccan origin were victims of racist behavior from an employee of the Pans & Company chain. The events took place in Girona, in northern Spain.
Outraged by this reception, the young Moroccans entered into a discussion with the employee who simply told them: "there are many people we don’t accept. I won’t serve you your coffee because the boss doesn’t want to."
According to the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the employee claimed that her boss had spotted the 3 men through the surveillance cameras, before ordering his staff not to serve them.
While announcing the opening of an internal investigation, the Pans & Company company also denied any discriminatory treatment of customers due to their origin, adds the Spanish newspaper.
For the Catalan Councilor for Labor, Social Affairs and Family, Chakir El Homrani, a Spaniard of Moroccan origin, the incident is "intolerable", in the sense that "not serving a customer because of his origin is called racism".