Kebab shop owner faces terrorism charges for serving ‘AK-47’ and ‘M16’ meals

From the Telegraph

A kebab shop owner in southern France has been arrested on suspicion of condoning terrorism for serving meals named after guns or explosives. The first letter of the eatery’s name, Toubib Burger (Doc Burger), is also in the shape of an assault rifle.

According to Europe 1 radio, the kebab diner in the southern French town of Bézeris offered a string of menus with rather disturbing names.

There is an AK-47 menu of kebab and chips for €7 (£5), as well as a Gunfire offer for the same price. Other “explosive” meals include the Grenade or C-4, referring to plastic explosives, – both at €6.5. As for the customer loyalty card, it features sniper targets.

The unnamed 44-year old owner, arrested on Wednesday after a complaint, also reportedly stuck fake assault rifles on the shop’s walls. 

When asked by police about the provocative meal names, he played down their significance, saying it was “just a bit of marketing” to attract a younger clientele. 

However, it reportedly transpires he is an acquaintance of a brother of Mohamed Merah, the Islamist who gunned down seven people in Toulouse before being shot dead in 2012, and is on an intelligence “S” watchlist for potentially dangerous Islamists. He was ordered to move out of Toulouse. The man is also reportedly known to regularly sport a T-shirt with “Daesh”, the Arabic name of Isil, on it, as well as an empty gun cartridge.

The formerly Catholic Muslim convert has already served a year in prison for possessing six kilograms of cannabis, two assault rifles and a hand gun. Detectives found another gun at his flat during a raid this week.