The couple have set up a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for repairing and replacing equipment, paying outstanding staff and supplier costs and planning a new home for And Bodega
No insurance?
Insurance is refusing to pay out. It’s the in the article…
The couple say their contents insurance… is expected to provide a payout of about $25,000. But the funds are not expected to cover the costs of rebuilding the cafe at the same location.
Sounds like they didn’t have building or business insurance - only contents.
Where are you reading insurance is refusing to pay out?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/20/tobacco-shops-attacks-melbourne-ntwnfb
A long bow. I’ll admit. But not hard to join the dots. That said; Insurance doesn’t pay out while there is ongoing police investigations so they may be waiting a while for a yay or nay.
So to address people firebombing legal tobacco shops…
The government is cracking down on illegal shops?
I don’t understand how that’s gonna do anything, if anything it’s going to make the people bombing legal shops in residential neighborhoods think they’re in the right.
Like tobacco is unhealthy, but so blowing up shit where people sleep
The firebombing is not about government crackdown, it’s probably a protection racket, or extortion.
A lot of “legal” tobacco shops also sell illegal tobacco.
