THIS is the terrifying moment a fuming customer sets fire to a café after being told he couldn’t have mayonnaise on his sandwich.
The 50-year-old arsonist allegedly grew disgruntled after being refused the sauce by two members of staff.
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He then reportedly walked to a nearby petrol station to purchase a litre and half bottle of petrol.
Horrifying footage appears to show the man setting fire to an object in his hand at the Las Postas Cafe-Bar in Seville, Spain before it erupts into a ball of flames.
Huge flames are seen engulfing the café as customers run to safety.
According to the café’s owner, repairs will cost up to £7000 but damage to the property was contained thanks to “quick-thinking workers” who used a fire extinguisher to put out the flames.
The Civil Guard confirmed the suspect was arrested and taken to a local health centre for treatment after accidentally burning one of his hands.
He is due to appear in court later today.
The suspect is believed to have been with two other people at the time of the incident, though it has not yet been determined why he may have started the fire.
The owner of cafe, Jose Antonio Caballero, called the incident completely “surreal” and said there is “no explanation for what he did”.
He told Spanish press: “First one waiter and then another the second time this gentleman asked for mayonnaise gave him the same answer which was that the bar didn’t have a kitchen and the sandwiches came ready-prepared and we didn’t have sauces.
“At that moment he walked to the garage opposite, returned to the bar with a bottle in his hand which we discovered afterwards had petrol inside, and asked the first waiter: ‘Are you sure there’s no mayonnaise?’ without giving him time to reply.
“There’s no explanation for what happened. It was awful.”
He added: “The important thing is that nobody was injured.
“There were young children and elderly people around. Imagine if someone had been hurt.”
It comes just months after a husband burned down his wife’s café because he thought she was having an affair.
Butcher Paul Armstrong’s customers made the claims about his estranged missus Pei, a court heard.
CCTV showed him pouring accelerant over the floor of Foodelicious, which he had paid £16,000 to set up.
Last July’s blaze forced an upstairs tenant to flee.
Days earlier, Armstrong let himself into the café with a spare key, waited for Pei, 45, then chased her with an 8in knife.
She fled and called cops.
Bournemouth crown court was told he also took her passport and £7,000 so she could not visit family in Malaysia.
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