Bebe Rexha claims she was victim of 'hate crime' for speaking Albanian at Munich airport

Bebe Rexha claims she was the victim of a 'hate crime' after an incident at a German airport.

In a series of touching posts about her Instagram Stories on Saturday (August 17), the 34-year-old pop star claimed she was “threatened” and banned from a Lufthansa flight at Munich Airport after speaking Albanian to a security official.

“They threatened me because I thought the security agent was Albanian,” Rexa wrote in a sobbing video. “I spoke to him in Albanian asking where to get my ticket and now he is denying me the flight.”

In another post of hers, this one he wrote“I think it's a hate crime because I'm Albanian. He wouldn't let me take his name. He continued to mentally abuse me to make me feel that he was stronger [than] it was. None of the women at @Lufthansa intervened or said anything. He wouldn't give me his name. But I just found out that he works for ATSG, a document control service company hired by Lufthansa.”

Rexha too republication a request from another Instagram user asking for the singer to be taken home safely and calling on Munich Airport to “investigate the male officer who threatened a [woman]” to speak Albanian.

Rexha was born in New York and is of Albanian-North Macedonian descent. The Brooklyn native's father was born in North Macedonia and her US-born mother also has Albanian roots.

Lufthansa representative he said TMZ that the airline is in contact with Rexha to get the full story. Lufthansa reportedly added that “diversity and equal opportunities are core values ​​for its company.”

Check out Rexha's heartwarming posts on her Instagram Story here.