New Delhi (TAN): A Dutch tourist was recently assaulted in Lucknow, India for using a rainbow-coloured debit card to pay his bill.
According to reports, a group of men attacked the 29-year-old traveller after he used his travel card issued by the Netherlands-based bank Bunq to settle his bill in a café in the north Indian town. They thought he was gay as the debit card design features bright stripes of colours which they confused with that on the LGBTQ community’s rainbow flag.
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The Dutch visitor was reportedly surrounded by eight men who hollered homophobic remarks at him, called him ‘gay’ and beat him up. He suffered injuries and had to be taken to the hospital.
Although the Bunq card sports multiple colours, they are placed in a way different from that on the Pride flag. Also, the bank’s card does not feature the colour purple.
“Needles to say, we are shocked and outraged. We immediately reached out to see what we can do to help our user,” Chief Executive Officer, Bunq, Ali Niknam was quoted by media reports as saying.
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He added that the colours on the card “represent the happiness and joy all people of the world associate with seeing the rainbow” and that the attack was “deeply disturbing”.
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