In Bremen, an apartment advertisement with a racist sentence caused horror.
In such cases, there may even be lawsuits.
Anyone looking for an apartment occasionally stumbles across strange advertisements.
Many landlords have certain requirements that must be met.
For example, some only allow women to move into an advertised one-room apartment.
Others only want to give their four walls to students.
Still others want to
exclude
people
from certain cultures from the outset
.
This is what happened in Bremen when a racist apartment advertisement was discovered.
For the landlord, the choice of words and the required conditions could be fatal.
Racist apartment advertisement in Bremen horrifies potential applicants
An apartment with 55 square meters for a cold rent of 495 euros - a price that people in expensive cities like Munich or Stuttgart can only dream of. In fact, apartment hunters in Bremen occasionally discover such advertisements. That apartment for 495 euros, however, had a catch, as
reported by
RTL.de
,
among other things
: “Please no prospective tenants from the Afro area!” Wrote the agent. This group of people is therefore excluded.
This is problematic
because the ad is obviously of a racist nature
.
Unfortunately, the tender was discovered after the Office for Social Services forwarded it to interested parties, reports
RTL.de
on.
It is precisely this office that is responsible for helping people in particular who are struggling with discrimination when looking for accommodation.
"That was an oversight that we very much regret," says Wolf Krämer from the Office for Social Services in an RTL video.
The sentence was simply overlooked by those in charge.
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Racist advertisements for apartments do not have to remain without consequences
Those affected do not simply have to accept such a remark, even if the author provides a seemingly coherent explanation for it.
Allegedly, the landlord has already had trouble with people of the mentioned culture in the past, which is why he wants to exclude them.
However, it is legally difficult
to specify a preferred target group in apartment advertisements.
In the RTL video, lawyer Nicole Mutschke explains that those affected can refer to the general equality policy.
In this case, landlords would face damages and injunctions.
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