Restaurant owner says she and her husband were attacked on their terrace in Montreal's Village

The owner of a dumpling restaurant in Montreal’s Village neighbourhood says she and her husband were attacked on their terrace earlier this week. Now sharing their story publicly, they’re joining a growing number of residents and merchants in the neighbourhood who feel it’s become unsafe in recent years.

The owner of a dumpling restaurant in Montreal’s Village neighbourhood says she and her husband were attacked steps from their storefront earlier this week.

Now sharing their story publicly, they’re joining a growing number of residents and merchants who feel the Village has become unsafe in recent years.

"I was in the kitchen and I saw two guys on the terrace,” said Emily Yu, owner of Yamato Dumpling on Sainte-Catherine St., where the incident took place on Wednesday, at around 1:30 p.m.

She says they appeared to be intoxicated, and that her husband decided to ask them to leave.

When he approached them, she said, one of them got violent. Yu says she called the police before her husband was dragged from the door down onto the pavement, where he was “punched on the face several times.”

When Yu tried to intervene, she says she was attacked, too.

"He kicked my feet and then I fell down, and he smashed me as well," she said.