Shoreditch’s cereal cafe has been destroyed by gentrification protesters

The Cereal Killer cafe in Shoreditch, London, was attacked by anti-gentrification protestors last night who scrawled the words “SCUM” on the front window.

The F*** Parade let off fireworks and clashed with police as they marched from Shoreditch High street station to Old Street via Bethnal Green Road and Brick Lane.

A cafe in London that only serves cereals has been attacked during a protest about affordable housing.

Demonstrators also targeted several other businesses, including Marsh & Parsons estate agents, with activists seen on video trying to kick the glass in.

It said: “Our communities are being ripped apart – by Russian oligarchs, Saudi Sheiks, Israeli scumbag property developers, Texan oil-money t***s and our own home-grown Eton toffs”.

The owners said: “We started a business to deliver an experience to cereal lovers, and have been thanked by local businesses for bringing tourists to the area”. They had pigs heads and torches.

One person was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

“So we’re a speciality cereal cafe and we sell 120 different cereals from around the world”, Cereal Killer Cafe co-owner Alan Keery explained.

Organisers of the protest, called the “F*** Parade”, said in a statement: “Soon this city will be an unrecognisable, bland, yuppie-infested wasteland with no room for normal (and not so normal) people like us”.

In that context it’s not necessarily surprising that a cereal cafe – catering to people who can afford a five dollar bowl of cereal – has become a focus of the anger.

“London is our home and worth defending against this onslaught of dog-eat-dog economics”.

An officer suffered a minor injury to his face as a result of a thrown bottle.

“We’re being targeted as the poster boys of gentrification and that’s not our fault”.

Scotland Yard said that a “criminal element” within the larger protest had thrown missiles and caused damage. The group continued to move around the Shoreditch and Brick Lane area until around 12.30am on Sunday 27 September.