The video lasts one minute and 45 seconds and is full of controversy! An argument between a master baker and a Muslim customer escalated in Swabia. The police are now investigating racism, death threats and a smashed shop window.
In the video, baker Frank Montagnese (60) can clearly be heard getting upset about customer Aisa S.’s face veil (nikab). ‘We’re not in the Middle Ages here,’ the owner scolds her twice and asks the woman to leave his shop. The businessman from the small town of Ditzingen ( in the state of Baden-Württemberg) with a population of 25,000 gets louder and louder, finally shouting: ‘You and your Muslim shit!’
However, Aisa S. is not squeamish either. The Bosnian Muslim woman calls the baker an ‘anti-social pack’ and later publishes calls for a boycott on social media. A storm of indignation followed, and her mobile phone video was clicked on 200,000 times on TikTok alone, with hateful comments. Users called for the master baker to be murdered (‘We won’t let someone like you live’) and demanded that his shop be burnt down.
Two days later, an unknown person smashes the window of Montagnese’s bakery in the Hirschlanden district of Ditzingen at night. Damage: around 3000 euros.
The master baker, son of an Italian migrant worker and a German, told the newspaper BILD: ‘I regret that I said “Muslim shit”. Everything else is fine.’
Die Polizei ermittelt gegen alle Beteiligten, auch gegen die Internet-User, die zu Straftaten gegen Montagnese aufgerufen haben.
Montagnese: ‘I respect all religions and cultures, but I don’t want anyone wearing a face veil in my shop. That doesn’t fit in with Germany. Customers and employees feel uncomfortable, and the interior is under video surveillance. In an emergency, I need to know who I’m dealing with.’
Aisa S. could not be reached for comment. However, she is trying to contain the storm again, writing on the Internet: ‘Please don’t smash any windows or call the bakery.’