Video Reveals How Chocolate ‘Swastika’ Appeared On Jewish Customer’s Coffee

Earlier we wrote about the 19-year-old trainee barista who was sacked from his job at The Coffee Cup in Hampstead, north London, after drawing a chocolate Swastika on the cappuccino of a Jewish customer.

Here’s a reminder of the coffee in question:

The barista, a lad named Mesut, was understandably fired on the spot, even though he insisted the drawing was an “accident” and that he didn’t even know what a Swastika was.

Sounds like a ridiculous excuse, but the Metro has now retrieved CCTV footage of Mesut preparing the coffee, and some people are suggesting it proves his innocence:

Well, I’m not sure that proves or disproves anything tbh, but it doesn’t appear that he’s up to anything malicious. Maybe he genuinely hadn’t seen or heard of a Swastika in all his 19 years of life, until he “accidentally” drew one on a Jewish customer’s cup of coffee?

Seems unlikely, but who knows? After all, would he really be stupid enough to do this and expect to remain in a job? It does seem a bit odd that he would intentionally do this and then protest his innocence after being inevitably sacked.

Even the manager who fired him, Bekim Haradini, says it’s really strange and out of character for Mesut.

According to the 45-year-old Jewish customer, who spoke to Jewish News, the manager “took a picture of it himself, and he went into the kitchen, came back and said, ‘Listen, I’m absolutely sorry. I don’t think the intention is there at all. There was no intent there. We’ve got a trainee barista. He’s a 19 year old kid. He says he doesn’t even know what a swastika is himself. He was trying to do a swirl. We’re terribly, terribly sorry.’”

The manager himself told Jewish News: “This has never happened before. I was really upset. I fired him. He’s young, and he started to cry and was shaking, but I got so upset. I fired him. He’s no longer working here.”

“He said he didn’t know. I said, ‘What do you mean you didn’t know?’ He said, ‘I swear I didn’t do it.”

 “It’s never happened before. I’ve seen him making flowers when he was doing designs in the cappuccinos.”

I guess only young Mesut knows for sure.

For the time Starbucks were ordered to pay £39 million to a man who burned his genitals at their drive-thru, click HERE. £39 million!