A Turkish Bar in Doncaster has been smashed with a hammer and covered in paint by a masked vandal causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
CCTV footage from the scene on the 6 May at around 1:30am was posted online by Antep Bar and Grill.
The footage appears to show a man, hiding his face with a bike helmet, smashing up the windows and throwing a tub of white paint across the front of the building.
ShefNews spoke to the owner’s son on Friday, who asked not to be named in the story. He said: “It was an unprovoked attack. It’s a family run restaurant, we have no qualms with anyone.
“It’s important to let them know that we will stay tight knit together and they’re not going to keep us down.”
The restaurant has recently posted a statement on social media announcing that the windows have been fixed and they are now open again.
Posting on Instagram this morning, they said: “As upsetting and difficult this been for a small business with a lot of pressures, the support, messages and kindness from our amazing customers, friends and wider community has meant the world to us.”
The attack is said to set them back thousands of pounds, with the owner’s son saying “everyone knows the pressures economically, for a small business like us, its difficult. But its not enough to keep us out, we’re going to keep going.”
He said that he believes tighter security and safety measures should be put in place in the future.
Despite the attacks he said that community is ‘stronger than what people think’ and that a ‘few wrong people’ shouldn’t have a wider impact on what people think of Doncaster.
This vandalism comes only a month after an Italian restaurant was subject to a similar attack across the same road.
Zammuto on Nether Hall Road saw a vandal smash every window on 25 March this year.
South Yorkshire Police have been contacted for comment.
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