Mayor Theo Weterings of Tilburg has decided to close coffee shop Caza for three months. The coffee shop on the Gasthuisring was twice the target of an attack in December and subsequently closed on its own initiative.
On December 14, a fireworks bomb and jerry can were thrown at the coffee shop, but it did not explode. Three days later it happened again: an unrecognizable man stuck a bottle of flammable liquid on a window of the coffee shop.
A few people who were present in the coffee shop were able to follow exactly what the man outside was up to on the cameras. Three men ran outside to catch the perpetrator, but the perpetrator managed to escape a waiting getaway car.
Multiple attacks
In the past two years, the coffee shop has been the target of an attack five times. The business was closed on its own initiative after the last incident last month. In an earlier attack, last February, a man dressed in black threw an explosive at the building. A cyclist then narrowly escaped.
After that attack, the building was closed for a few months. Since the coffee shop reopened, security has been at the door every day.
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