A fake homemade bomb was placed at the entrance of an Israeli-owned kosher restaurant in Amsterdam on Wednesday.
The cardboard box, which contained no explosives, was found Wednesday morning outside the HaCarmel restaurant in southern Amsterdam. It had masking tape fastening wires and a black electric trigger switch to its top.
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Sami Bar-On, the owner of HaCarmel, told Israel Hayom: "This wasn't the first time, I know it was Muslims. This was the fourth time in the past four years [his restaurant was targeted], but we won't give in to this behavior and we will raise our heads. I'm not scared, we aren't scared, and we will continue operating with tremendous pride."
HaCarmel first made headlines in 2017 when a man waving a Palestinian flag smashed its main window, stealing an Israeli flag hanging there.
The suspect, a Syrian asylum seeker, was arrested when he came out of the restaurant. He was convicted of vandalism after 52 days in jail while awaiting his trial but was released with no additional penalty.
In another incident, the restaurant was pelted with eggs.
