The bar “Kreuzweise” is well-known part of the left-wing scene in Augsburg. But dissension has now broken out in the ranks, after the bar imposed a ban on African asylum seekers.
“We’ve had it up to here! There’s no fun here any more. I’m speechless. The boys won’t listen to anyone, they’re highly aggressive and we can’t take it any more. They’re out, all of them!” said bar owner Tatjana Dogan in a Facebook post.
The asylum seekers are all young men from Gambia. In the bar, they have been stealing, behaving aggressively and harassing women. Police have been called and forced to draw their weapons on the Africans.
Some leftists have complained that it is unjust to ban all dark-skinned people from the bar, but the owner has made it clear that only this one specific group of asylum seekers has been affected.
She also maintains her left-wing credentials by expressing sympathy for them.
Refugees from Gambia have almost no chance of their asylum application being accepted, she says. They can’t work, have little money and don’t get courses in German. “That would make anyone frustrated,” she said. “The men need to be taken care of better.”
Meanwhile, an additional bouncer has been hired to deal with the African problem.
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