Restaurantejer Asher Naman has just gone to bed after a long day working at the restaurant Just Curry in Kalundborg, when the police on the night of Sunday, contact him.
There has occurred a fire in his restaurant, and police and firefighters are already on site, says.
Asher Naman running with the same out there and can quickly ascertain that the damage is massive.
– Throughout the kitchen are damaged, both water damage and damage to the inventory from the fire, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
He goes on to explain that the fire in the restaurant comes just a little month after, to he 4. October was approached in the restaurant by two men. They asked him to go outside, where they threatened him to burn the restaurant down, if not he paid 100,000 dollars.
25.000 should fall within 24 hours, they said.
Asher Naman had never seen the men before, and he refused to give in to afpresningen.
I never considered whether I would have to pay. The I refuse, he says.
He described to the police the men as the Danish of the look and feel of the 20’s. One was the heavy of the building, the balding and had a tattoo on his neck. The other had short, black hair.
in the Middle – and West zealand Police is looking with great earnestness on the matter, but according to the communications officer Martin Bjerregaard does not confirm, that there should be a correlation between the notification of the threat and the weekend’s fire.
– Our investigators of course looks at that in the past has been a review of the threats, but whether the fire is a follow up on the threats, we can’t say anything about at the present time, he says.
He says that the police in the days after the threats kept an eye on the restaurant, but that they are not registered anything abnormal. The fire investigator the as a every other incident of the same nature.
– After the preliminary brandtekniske studies, we can exclude that he has forgotten something on the stove. It stems not from the mains power supply or operation of machinery, he says.
A shattered pane, and the reaction from a brandhund, as kriminalteknikerne had, however, according to Martin Bjerregaard, pointing in the direction of an arson fire.
– the Dog indicates on the site that there might be nothing to come after in relation to flammable liquids, so are some samples from the site are now submitted to detailed technical studies, he says.
It is not just the restaurant, which is labeled after the fire. Asher Namans family has been very anxious in the time after the threats, he says.
the Family is troubled, and of course, I’m also a little marked, but if it were up to me, so I open the damn again, he says.
He emphasizes that he has met great support from the local community, and that he certainly was not going to give up.
According to the communications officer at Mid and West zealand Police Martin Bjerregaard has no suspects in the case.
We are working on with the investigation and would like to hear from witnesses who may have seen someone or something in the deserted area of the restaurant on the night of Sunday.
