BREAKING NEWS Popular Marrickville restaurant is firebombed TWICE
NSW Police on Thursday released footage of the man using fireworks to set fire to a restaurant on Tuohy Lane, off Illawarra Road near Marrickville Station in Sydney 's inner-west, last month.
One video shows a masked man lighting a fire in the courtyard of the restaurant on the night of May 29.
Another man waited nearby in a Kia sedan and the pair drove from the scene.
Arson Unit detectives found the man attacked the same restaurant, this time with fireworks, the following night.
'Just before 1am on Friday 30 May 2025, emergency services were called to Tuohy Lane in Marrickville following reports of a fire in the courtyard of a restaurant,' NSW Police said.
'Initial inquiries revealed accelerant and an explosive device – most likely a firework – was used to light the fire at the restaurant.'
The man is described as being of Mediterranean/Middle Eastern appearance, about 185cm tall, and of medium build.
He has black, curly, shoulder length hair, and wears glasses.
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