The attacker reportedly said he targeted the shop because it was Muslim-owned.
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The student-led campaign raised over $40,000 to boost the ailing restaurant’s finances, far exceeding its original target of $7,000. Additionally, a local Jewish businessman put $1,000 behind the restaurant’s counter to help whip up business by handing out free kebabs.
Ismet Tekin who co-owns the restaurant with his brother Rafin told German news outlets that the campaign showed that unity in the face of hatred was possible.
“It’s really amazing what they did,” Tekin said. “They did it out of solidarity, to show that we are together, that we can get through these times when we are united.”
Ismet Tekin owner of the Turkish Bistro in Halle that was attacked in 2019
The German Jewish community has intervened to save a Muslim-owned kebab restaurant targetted in a far-Right terror attack from going out of business because of the coronavirus pandemic.
With its slowly rotating kebab spits and stainless steel salad counter, Kiez-Döner in the eastern city of Halle is typical of countless Turkish fast food joints scattered across Germany.
In 2019 it made headlines around the world after it was caught up in a far-Right terror attack that also targetted a synagogue packed with worshippers marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
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