--- title: Vegan Café Attacked by Extremists With Sausage and Fish description: Far-right extremists armed with grilled meat allegedly attacked a vegan café in the former Soviet republic of Georgia over the weekend. canonical: https://time.com/4353436/vegan-cafe-attacked-georgia/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-01T14:17:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T17:57:50.883Z article:section: World og:title: Vegan Café Attacked by Extremists With Sausage and Fish og:description: The café blamed the attack on an alleged neo-Nazi skinhead group og:url: https://time.com/4353436/vegan-cafe-attacked-georgia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt049fe4dc9be1fe79/698895c5fb4eac78e188dbd3/kiwi-cafe-vegan-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Georgia: Young Nationalists rally in Tbilisi en Independence Day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vegan Café Attacked by Extremists With Sausage and Fish twitter:description: The café blamed the attack on an alleged neo-Nazi skinhead group twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt049fe4dc9be1fe79/698895c5fb4eac78e188dbd3/kiwi-cafe-vegan-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vegan Café Allegedly Attacked by Right-Wing Extremists With Sausage and Fish by [Alex Johnson / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alex Johnson / NBC News Jun 1, 2016 2:17 PM CUT  A goup of young Nationalists walk throught Tbilisi center on the day that the country celebrates its Independence Day in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 26, 2016. A goup of young Nationalists walk throught Tbilisi center on the day that the country celebrates its Independence Day in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 26, 2016.Artur Widak—Sipa USA by [Alex Johnson / NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## Alex Johnson / NBC News Jun 1, 2016 2:17 PM CUT Far-right extremists armed with sausages, grilled meat and fish attacked a vegan café in the former Soviet republic of Georgia over the weekend, the café alleges. Kiwi Café in Tbilisi, the capital, canceled a scheduled showing of U.S. TV shows after the assault Sunday night, it said, blaming the attack on the “Bergmann movement,” which it called a neo-Nazi skinhead group. The national newspaper Georgia Today quoted witnesses as saying members of the anti-communist Georgian Power movement were also part of the melée. Far-right extremists visited the neighborhood about a month ago asking nearby shopkeepers about the presence of foreigners… [_Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News_](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/vegan-caf-allegedly-attacked-right-wing-extremists-sausage-fish-n583586?cid=sm%5Ftw&hootPostID=5f962c0447c4240d5c3e5895632a41db?cid=par-time-article%5F2014100 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4353436/vegan-cafe-attacked-georgia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4353436/vegan-cafe-attacked-georgia/"},"headline":"Vegan Café Allegedly Attacked by Right-Wing Extremists With Sausage and Fish","datePublished":"2016-06-01T14:17:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T17:57:50.883Z","description":"The café blamed the attack on an alleged neo-Nazi skinhead group","url":"https://time.com/4353436/vegan-cafe-attacked-georgia/","keywords":["georgia","Crime","Vegan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt049fe4dc9be1fe79/698895c5fb4eac78e188dbd3/kiwi-cafe-vegan-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Johnson / NBC News"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt049fe4dc9be1fe79/698895c5fb4eac78e188dbd3/kiwi-cafe-vegan-attack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Georgia: Young Nationalists rally in Tbilisi en Independence Day","caption":"TBILISI, GEORGIA - MAY 26, 2016 - A goup of young Nationalists walk throught Tbilisi center on the day that the country celebrates its Independence Day commemorating the adoption of the Act of Independence in 1918, that outlined the main principles of th","creditText":"Artur Widak—Sipa USA","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/georgia/","name":"georgia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4353436/vegan-cafe-attacked-georgia/","name":"Vegan Café Allegedly Attacked by Right-Wing Extremists With Sausage and Fish"}}]}] ```