Suspicious package sent to Robert De Niro’s restaurant in New York

A restaurant owned by the American actor Robert De Niro is one the latest targets after a series of mail bombs were sent to high profile critics of the US President Donald Trump.

A suspicious parcel, addressed to De Niro, was discovered at the Tribeca Grill in Manhattan on Thursday (25 October) morning.

A spokesperson from the New York Police Department confirmed that a bomb squad arrived on the scene shortly after the discovery and were able to remove the device.

As Eater New York reports, no one was believed to have been either injured or evacuated from the building, with the restaurant opening as usual at 11:30am.

It is thought that the package was similar to the crude devices that have been sent to figures including the former US President Barack Obama, former Vice-President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former CIA director John Brennan, former Attorney General Eric Holder, California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters and major Democratic party donor George Soros.

De Niro is a vocal critic of Trump, having referred to the president in the past as “a national disaster”, “a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about” and said that he wanted to “punch him in the face”.

Trump in turn has referred to the actor as a “very low IQ individual”.

The Tribeca Grill opened in 1990 and is part of restaurateur Drew Nieporent’s company, Myriad Restaurant Group.

De Niro also owns a stake in Nieporent’s Nobu as well as Locanda Verde. In May this year, De Niro told the Daily Mail that he had banned Trump from every Nobu restaurant.

“If he walked into a restaurant I was in, I’d walk out,” he added.