London - Kosher Cafe Attacked

London - The owner of a kosher cafe spoke of the terrifying moments when she was threatened with a knife and spat at in an unprovoked anti-semitic attack outside her Golders Green restaurant.

Mother of one, Linda Cohen from Hendon, said that the two attackers made threats on her life, as customers dined just a few feet away inside La Maison.
The 34-year-old, said the shocking scenes unfolded after the pair approached the cafe asking a colleague if it was kosher and shouting abuse at that female member of staff. Linda said: “I came out of the cafe with some coffee and saw these two men shouting abuse. Then they began shouting abuse at me. One of them came towards me with a knife attached to a chain and threatened to kill me, whilst shouting ‘I’m going to kill you, you [expletive] Jew’”.
As she ran inside to call the police, the two suspects began to walk off but turned around and began throwing chairs at her male colleague and punching him in the face and back, causing injury to his left wrist.
The two men then threatened to throw the chair at the restaurant window, but Linda ran out and pleaded with them not to, at which point they threw yet another chair at the male colleague. The suspects later ran off in the direction of Finchley Road.

Linda said: “I was shocked that it had happened to me, here in Europe... someone spitting at you and calling you a stinking Jew.
“It’s shocking that you’re living in a world where you’re attacked simply because you are Jewish.
“It’s very scary. Here we are, living in 2006 and it’s just getting worse. After the Holocaust, we thought things would be different. But we’re always under threat, and its scary”.

One of the suspects has been described as a 24-year-old male, 5 foot 10 inches tall, of European appearance, wearing a blue zip-up top and grey tracksuit bottoms. The other has been described as a 24-year-old male.