The original post from the weekend was deleted due to no sources. Thanks to /u/FGVK8cJom47ruz3vdsy for the links in the deleted post.
Translation:
>”A bed and breakfast in Tilburg recently refused a student from Romania because of his origin. Inquiry shows that this is a standard policy for the owner, who says he does this after ‘agreements with the municipality’. The municipality firmly denies this, GroenLinks has asked council questions about the matter. Booking.com has removed the B&B from their site after questions from Omroep Brabant.
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>Alexandru Hegyi wanted to book a room in Tilburg for the night of March 28-29, where he would visit Tilburg University. Initially, his reservation with a B&B at Bosscheweg was accepted, but shortly afterwards he received a message from the owner via Booking.com: “We have an agreement with the municipality of Tilburg, our accommodation no longer receives Roman people”, she writes. And by ‘Roman’ she means Romanian people. Hegyi is furious about the state of affairs.
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>Illegal prostitutionBy telephone, the owner confirms to Omroep Brabant that he does refuse all Romanians who want to stay with her. She would have a fine of 25,000 euros open, because Romanians had illegal prostitutes work from her B&B. Early last year there were indeed raids on several hotels in Tilburg, due to illegal prostitution. This was also the case at the B&B on the Bosscheweg.
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>That would have resulted in the agreement with the municipality. In a letter she would have been told not to admit Romanians anymore. “I only do what is the agreement with the municipality,” writes the woman to Hegyi. After Omroep Brabant asked for a copy of the letter, the woman is unreachable for comment.
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>Dutch only adsThe municipality of Tilburg informs Omroep Brabant that there is absolutely no advice to refuse Romanians. “This entrepreneur has previously found abuses with illegal prostitution, if that happens again, a penalty payment will follow,” says a spokesperson. “We do not know what the entrepreneur will then take for measures.”
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>GroenLinks councilor Nermin Agovic has asked council questions about the case. He wants to know whether this B&B has been in the picture before because of these kinds of practices. Agovic is concerned about the ‘normalization of discrimination’, he tells Omroep Brabant. He also previously rang the bell for student room advertisements, which clearly stated that ‘Dutch only’ students were wanted.
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>Also in EindhovenAlexandru Hegyi is now back in Romania and still furious about the state of affairs. He says that he is in contact with politicians in Romania who would like to discuss the matter at diplomatic level. He says he has traveled all over the world, but nowhere has such ‘unblamed discrimination’ been encountered. What comes next? Romanians are no longer allowed to walk down the street or visit a restaurant?”That’s how he wonders. “This case should be closed!Hegyi will file a complaint with the municipality of Tilburg.
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>Anti-discrimination agency Radar from Tilburg says that it has never heard before that a municipality would advise to keep out a certain population group. The agency is currently investigating the matter. They do indicate that there was a recent report from Eindhoven, where a woman from Russia was refused at the Park Plaza Hotel. According to the hotel, this was based on a misunderstanding.
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>After questions from Omroep Brabant, Booking.com has decided to remove the mention of the B&B from their website.”
Edit – what’s funny, on the guy’s Instagram, people were telling him to contact booking.com. He said that’s the first thing he did but booking didn’t care they just closed his ticket.
As soon he posted on social media and it became somewhat viral they came back like true heroes of equality, rights protectors and whatever PR they might have in store and removed the B&B from their listing. Equality for all…if it gets in the media.
r/2westerneurope4u
It’s not new that there is a lot of racism towards Romanians across Europe …. Such a pitty that for some idiots who created a negative imagine so many people have to suffer of discrimination.
In mod absolut ironic, nu ti-am putut da reply pe post-ul de pe r/romania, pt ca am luat ban deoarece am folosit cuvantul moderator.
The fucking irony.
“Removed. Source is not trustworthy.”
That’s messed up.
I am trying to figure out who happier the puppy or the kids.
Last month me and my wife, were flying from Germany to the UK for a city break weekend. It wasn’t a direct flight so we had to change planes at the Schiphol airport in Netherlands.
Since UK is no longer in EU, we had to have our passports checked before boarding the second plane. At the queue, I let my wife go first and a few seconds later a new officer was available so I went there. I have a dual citizenship, Romanian and German, my wife only has Romanian citizenship.
For me the whole thing took less than 20 seconds, I think. He scanned the German passport, asked me where I fly and that was it. When I left the counter, the other officer was still checking my wife’s passport and was turning it on all sides.
Since you cannot wait there, I started to look around for a shop to maybe buy a snack or something, I turn around and see my wife coming out and immediately some guy with a reflective vest going to her and points to an adjacent room next to the pass control.
It was a secondary luggage check and they told her that if you fly to some locations, it is mandatory to have your luggage checked again…..
Nobody asked to check my luggage again and I was flying to the same location as my wife, but I have a German passport!!! 🤷♂️. Also there were a bunch of people which were flying at the same location as us and they were not checked again. They were only checking around 3-4 people….so much for mandatory.
It’s this small kind of chicanery that pisses me off. They clearly checked her again because she is a Romanian citizen.
The sad part is the people that took that decision, should be able to read people and make a split second decision if somebody is dangerous/suspect. If they considered my wife to look suspicions, they failed miserably at their job and should be sent to basic training.
So yeah, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Happened to me as well in a rather shitty way. I tried booking a place that required confirmation from the host. Host sent a message that unfortunately the property was unavailable on the desired days.
Felt a bit fishy, because it was off season and not in a big touristic area. I ask my then girlfriend, a German, to try booking the property. Well… what do you know? Property magically became available on the same dates a few hours later.
Food for thought. Racism and discrimination are otherwise unacceptable, but if targeted at eastern Europeans, it’s totally fine right?
Uncool.
>Anti-discrimination agency Radar from Tilburg says that it has never
heard before that a municipality would advise to keep out a certain
population group
Maybe they should pick up a history book
This is what Russia propaganda does to those stupid enough to embrace it. They are calling “the west” “nazis” and examples like this makes it true. If EU doesn’t get their facists parties under control, Russia might be proven historically right. I mean, do we really need to repeat the same scenario we had 80+ years ago with different but similar actors?
I can see why Romanians and others in the Balkans hate the Dutch with a burning passion
Big yikes from the Netherlands.
Fucking racist pig
Dutch being xenophobic. Nothing new
I lived in Germany, Munich for a couple of months and one day i decided that i needed new shoes, i entered at Foot Locker to buy me some converse that i had in mind, the employee greed me and talk to me about what shoes i ve got to try and all, he was very polite and talkative, and he was curious where i am from, when he heard that i am from Romania he just turned around and leaved
i am a romanian-tatar so i have asian origins, and i ve been bullied all my childhood for my appearance, but i knew how to handle it, and i didn t take it personal..but this time.. man… i felt so low and so furious at the same time.
IG – scam / he has force the hotel to send him the note after he heard some information about the intern politics and management problems – he was looking for audience and followers on his platform where is a kind of influencer or something like this
I’m Polish, we have some pretty bad examples of Polish people going abroad and I’ve never experienced so much racism towards me, my friends or anyone I know. Why is there so much hate/racism towards Romanians?
I’ve always thought of Romanians as generally better behaved than Polish tourists.
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The original post from the weekend was deleted due to no sources. Thanks to /u/FGVK8cJom47ruz3vdsy for the links in the deleted post.
Translation:
>”A bed and breakfast in Tilburg recently refused a student from Romania because of his origin. Inquiry shows that this is a standard policy for the owner, who says he does this after ‘agreements with the municipality’. The municipality firmly denies this, GroenLinks has asked council questions about the matter. Booking.com has removed the B&B from their site after questions from Omroep Brabant.
>
>Alexandru Hegyi wanted to book a room in Tilburg for the night of March 28-29, where he would visit Tilburg University. Initially, his reservation with a B&B at Bosscheweg was accepted, but shortly afterwards he received a message from the owner via Booking.com: “We have an agreement with the municipality of Tilburg, our accommodation no longer receives Roman people”, she writes. And by ‘Roman’ she means Romanian people. Hegyi is furious about the state of affairs.
>
>Illegal prostitutionBy telephone, the owner confirms to Omroep Brabant that he does refuse all Romanians who want to stay with her. She would have a fine of 25,000 euros open, because Romanians had illegal prostitutes work from her B&B. Early last year there were indeed raids on several hotels in Tilburg, due to illegal prostitution. This was also the case at the B&B on the Bosscheweg.
>
>That would have resulted in the agreement with the municipality. In a letter she would have been told not to admit Romanians anymore. “I only do what is the agreement with the municipality,” writes the woman to Hegyi. After Omroep Brabant asked for a copy of the letter, the woman is unreachable for comment.
>
>Dutch only adsThe municipality of Tilburg informs Omroep Brabant that there is absolutely no advice to refuse Romanians. “This entrepreneur has previously found abuses with illegal prostitution, if that happens again, a penalty payment will follow,” says a spokesperson. “We do not know what the entrepreneur will then take for measures.”
>
>GroenLinks councilor Nermin Agovic has asked council questions about the case. He wants to know whether this B&B has been in the picture before because of these kinds of practices. Agovic is concerned about the ‘normalization of discrimination’, he tells Omroep Brabant. He also previously rang the bell for student room advertisements, which clearly stated that ‘Dutch only’ students were wanted.
>
>Also in EindhovenAlexandru Hegyi is now back in Romania and still furious about the state of affairs. He says that he is in contact with politicians in Romania who would like to discuss the matter at diplomatic level. He says he has traveled all over the world, but nowhere has such ‘unblamed discrimination’ been encountered. What comes next? Romanians are no longer allowed to walk down the street or visit a restaurant?”That’s how he wonders. “This case should be closed!Hegyi will file a complaint with the municipality of Tilburg.
>
>Anti-discrimination agency Radar from Tilburg says that it has never heard before that a municipality would advise to keep out a certain population group. The agency is currently investigating the matter. They do indicate that there was a recent report from Eindhoven, where a woman from Russia was refused at the Park Plaza Hotel. According to the hotel, this was based on a misunderstanding.
>
>After questions from Omroep Brabant, Booking.com has decided to remove the mention of the B&B from their website.”
Edit – what’s funny, on the guy’s Instagram, people were telling him to contact booking.com. He said that’s the first thing he did but booking didn’t care they just closed his ticket.
As soon he posted on social media and it became somewhat viral they came back like true heroes of equality, rights protectors and whatever PR they might have in store and removed the B&B from their listing. Equality for all…if it gets in the media.
r/2westerneurope4u
It’s not new that there is a lot of racism towards Romanians across Europe …. Such a pitty that for some idiots who created a negative imagine so many people have to suffer of discrimination.
In mod absolut ironic, nu ti-am putut da reply pe post-ul de pe r/romania, pt ca am luat ban deoarece am folosit cuvantul moderator.
The fucking irony.
“Removed. Source is not trustworthy.”
That’s messed up.
I am trying to figure out who happier the puppy or the kids.
Last month me and my wife, were flying from Germany to the UK for a city break weekend. It wasn’t a direct flight so we had to change planes at the Schiphol airport in Netherlands.
Since UK is no longer in EU, we had to have our passports checked before boarding the second plane. At the queue, I let my wife go first and a few seconds later a new officer was available so I went there. I have a dual citizenship, Romanian and German, my wife only has Romanian citizenship.
For me the whole thing took less than 20 seconds, I think. He scanned the German passport, asked me where I fly and that was it. When I left the counter, the other officer was still checking my wife’s passport and was turning it on all sides.
Since you cannot wait there, I started to look around for a shop to maybe buy a snack or something, I turn around and see my wife coming out and immediately some guy with a reflective vest going to her and points to an adjacent room next to the pass control.
It was a secondary luggage check and they told her that if you fly to some locations, it is mandatory to have your luggage checked again…..
Nobody asked to check my luggage again and I was flying to the same location as my wife, but I have a German passport!!! 🤷♂️. Also there were a bunch of people which were flying at the same location as us and they were not checked again. They were only checking around 3-4 people….so much for mandatory.
It’s this small kind of chicanery that pisses me off. They clearly checked her again because she is a Romanian citizen.
The sad part is the people that took that decision, should be able to read people and make a split second decision if somebody is dangerous/suspect. If they considered my wife to look suspicions, they failed miserably at their job and should be sent to basic training.
So yeah, thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Happened to me as well in a rather shitty way. I tried booking a place that required confirmation from the host. Host sent a message that unfortunately the property was unavailable on the desired days.
Felt a bit fishy, because it was off season and not in a big touristic area. I ask my then girlfriend, a German, to try booking the property. Well… what do you know? Property magically became available on the same dates a few hours later.
Food for thought. Racism and discrimination are otherwise unacceptable, but if targeted at eastern Europeans, it’s totally fine right?
Uncool.
>Anti-discrimination agency Radar from Tilburg says that it has never
heard before that a municipality would advise to keep out a certain
population group
Maybe they should pick up a history book
This is what Russia propaganda does to those stupid enough to embrace it. They are calling “the west” “nazis” and examples like this makes it true. If EU doesn’t get their facists parties under control, Russia might be proven historically right. I mean, do we really need to repeat the same scenario we had 80+ years ago with different but similar actors?
I can see why Romanians and others in the Balkans hate the Dutch with a burning passion
Big yikes from the Netherlands.
Fucking racist pig
Dutch being xenophobic. Nothing new
I lived in Germany, Munich for a couple of months and one day i decided that i needed new shoes, i entered at Foot Locker to buy me some converse that i had in mind, the employee greed me and talk to me about what shoes i ve got to try and all, he was very polite and talkative, and he was curious where i am from, when he heard that i am from Romania he just turned around and leaved
i am a romanian-tatar so i have asian origins, and i ve been bullied all my childhood for my appearance, but i knew how to handle it, and i didn t take it personal..but this time.. man… i felt so low and so furious at the same time.
IG – scam / he has force the hotel to send him the note after he heard some information about the intern politics and management problems – he was looking for audience and followers on his platform where is a kind of influencer or something like this
I’m Polish, we have some pretty bad examples of Polish people going abroad and I’ve never experienced so much racism towards me, my friends or anyone I know. Why is there so much hate/racism towards Romanians?
I’ve always thought of Romanians as generally better behaved than Polish tourists.