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A Danish pizzeria owner was jailed Tuesday for refusing to serve French and German tourists in protesting their countries’ opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
A Danish court found Aage Bjerre guilty of discrimination and fined him $900. Bjerre refused to pay, and will now serve an eight-day sentence.
“I’m doing it to show my sympathy with the United States,” said Bjerre, 46. “It shows how seriously I mean it.”
In February 2003, before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Bjerre posted signs barring Germans and French from his pizzeria on Denmark’s western island of Fanoe. He got hundreds of fan letters from the U.S. but had to sell the pizzeria after repeated vandalism and a large drop in sales.
