{"id":695210,"date":"2026-05-26T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:37:09","slug":"woman-52-charged-over-alleged-assault-that-left-melbourne-cafe-worker-needing-dental-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/695210\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 52, charged over alleged assault that left Melbourne cafe worker needing dental surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French backpacker Anais Poupon, 19, was working at La Vallee Cafe on Keilor Road in Essendon on April 25 when a passerby allegedly knocked a plate she was carrying, causing it to smash into her teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged unprovoked attack was caught on CCTV and Poupon&#8217;s colleagues posted the footage to social media in a bid to track down the alleged offender.<\/p>\n<p>A\ufeff 52-year-old Footscray woman was arrested at Dandenong Railway Station about 10.50am on May 23.<\/p>\n<p>She was charged with recklessly causing injury and faced Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; court the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The charged woman was granted bail \ufeffand will next appear at Broadmeadows Magistrates&#8217; Court on 17 August, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Poupon\ufeff required surgery to fix her chipped tooth following the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French backpacker Anais Poupon, 19, was working at La Vallee Cafe on Keilor Road in Essendon on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-695210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}