The B&B Bosscheweg in Tilburg, the Netherlands, canceled a man’s booking because he is Romanian, the man in question showed on Instagram with screenshots of the messages B&B Bosscheweg sent him.
Alexandru Hegyi booked accommodation at B&B Bosscheweg through Booking.com. The B&B confirmed the booking, only to later cancel it with this message: „Thank you for your reservation. But unfortunately, we have an agreement with the municipality of Tilburg; our accommodation no longer receives Romeinse people.”
According to Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Romanian Embassy in The Hague initiated official and urgent procedures as soon as the case was reported in the mass media, in order to obtain additional information and clarifications.
The spokesperson of the Tilburg city hall told the embassy representatives by phone on April 4 that there has never been an agreement to refuse accommodation to Romanian citizens and that „discrimination is not tolerated in any form in Tilburg”, the source said.
According to MAE, the case is being investigated by the Tilburg city hall and the Anti-discrimination Organization. Also, according to the information that the spokesperson of the town hall sent to the Romanian Embassy in The Hague, the competent authorities in the locality have not succeeded, until this moment, in contacting the owner or the administrator of the accommodation unit offered for rent.
