“We deeply regret the experience of our customer in our store in Berlin,” said a company spokeswoman on Friday in Burgwedel (Hannover Region, Germany) on request. Currently, one to work the incident internally, “in order to draw the necessary consequences”.

Several media had reported, the woman should have been accused of Paying for the fraud: The cashier had kept the German last name on the Bank card of the customer is incompatible with their skin color, so the accusation. As the client wanted to press charges, would be paid to the called police officers to her words, allegedly, not have Faith, your blamed and threatened.

“speak Not on top of each other, but with each other”

Rossmann announced that the dialogue with all Stakeholders, especially the customer, who have you contacted in the meantime via social media. Of the company, it is important “not to talk on top of each other, but with each other – to get a better understanding of each other and learn from each other,” it said further.

The police have registered a criminal complaint against the cashier and a criminal investigation for insulting with racist Motivation initiated, such as the authority, wrote on Twitter. Not all of the information to be collected. “If the incident has played, then a criminal is visible or disciplinary dignified behavior of our colleagues in the room,” it said.

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