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We’re not in the business of assassination, Olivier manager tells judge
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Security officers patrol near the Olivier cafe at Grand Indonesia Mall, Central Jakarta, on Jan. 11 as Jakarta Police investigators investigate the death of Mirna Wayan Salihin after she drank cyanide-laced coffee on Jan. 6. (Tempo/Aditia Noviansyah)
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he manager of the upscale cafe in Central Jakarta where Wayan Mirna Solihin died after drinking a cyanide-laced Vietnamese iced coffee told the court on Wednesday that the company "had no intention" to kill anyone.
“Olivier is a restaurant. We are not in the business of assassination. We only sell food, beverages and services, nothing else,” Cafe Olivier manager Devi Chrisnawati Siagian told presiding judge Binsar Gultom, who previously asked her if the company “had ever targeted anyone”.
Devi, who was presented by the prosecutors to testify against the sole suspect in the case, Jessica Kumala Wongso, at the Central Jakarta District Court, claimed that no one had ever complained about the cafe before.
The restaurant has always passed food hygiene inspections by the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency, she said. If there was cyanide in the Vietnamese coffee, it was not the work of Oliver staff, she added.
“Jessica asked me, ‘What did you put in the coffee?' I was so insulted, as I didn’t believe that our coffee could cause someone to convulse so badly,” Devi said. (ary)
