Williamstown ice-cream shop Capriccio gutted by suspicious early morning fire

Police are investigating a suspicious blaze in Williamstown after another ice-cream shop went up in flames in the early hours of Friday morning.

A popular Williamstown ice-cream shop was smashed into and set on fire in the early hours of Friday morning.

The blaze broke out at Capriccio ice-cream store on Nelson Place about 3.45am.

Firefighters were called to the scene and remained there until 6.45am to fully extinguish the fire.

Police on scene after a suspicious fire in Nelson Place, Williamstown. Picture: Ian Currie

The shop is the second ice-cream store to be hit in the strip of shops in the last year. Picture: Ian Currie

Police are investigating and are treating the fire as “suspicious.”

Friday morning’s attack is the latest in a series of suspicious attacks on ice-cream shops and restaurants in the area.

The Williamstown Ice Creamery & Frozen Yoghurt shop, just off Nelson Place, was targeted twice in mid-November last year after an earlier fire in October 2022.

The three attacks led to the shop hiring private security guards to man the store overnight to prevent further damage.

Notorious crime figure Fadi Haddara’s Docklands restaurant Karizma was suspiciously torched on November 20, and another Docklands restaurant he was linked to, Almina, was set alight on December 8.

Company records show the Capriccio store was formerly run by Ezzat Haddara.