Singer Bebe Rexha claimed she was threatened and banned from her flight for allegedly speaking Albanian to an airport security agent, adding that she was the victim of a hate crime. The 34-year-old vocalist was traveling to the US when she was stopped from boarding her flight at Munich International Airport in Germany on Saturday. “The supervisor for this flight on Lufthansa is threatening me,” Rexha emotionally alleged in an Instagram story while wiping away tears.
“Lufthansa, I’ve been threatened because I thought the security agent was Albanian,” she captioned the video. “I spoke to him in Albanian asking where to get my ticket and now he’s banning me from the flight.” Rexha, whose family is of North Macedonian and Albanian descent, said the man abused his power while failing to identify himself.
“I believe this to be a hate crime because I am Albanian,” she said in a second post. “He would not let me take his name. He continued to mentally abuse me to make me feel like he was more powerful then [sic] he was.
” The “I’m Good (Blue)” singer claimed no female employee for Lufthansa would help her as her apparent abuser continued. “Not one of the women at Lufthansa stepped in or said something,” Rexha added. “He would not give me his name.
But I just found out he works for ATSG a service company document control hired by Lufthansa.” After her investigation, Rexha found out the unnamed employee allegedly works for “ATSG,” an aviation se.