Yargh, harpoon wounds !
Posted on 08/15/2016 3:18:38 PM PDT by quesney
Corsicans rallied on Sunday as tensions remained high on the French Mediterranean island after five people were injured and three cars burned in clashes between young locals and families of North African origin.
Around 500 people gathered in the French Mediterranean island's capital Bastia a day after the clashes in Sisco, on the north of the island.
The dispute erupted between members of "three families of North African origin and young locals", prosecutors said in a statement, adding that stones and bottles were thrown and three cars went up in flames before police managed to restore calm.
A girl who witnessed Saturday's clashes, speaking to Sunday's rally through a megaphone, said they began after tourists took photos of several women bathing in burqinis. According to the girl, whose account however could not be verified, a group of immigrant origin youths shouted insults, before several older men arrived, carrying hatchets, in support of the families on the beach.
They attacked a group of young Corsicans aged 15 to 18 on the beach, whose role in the incidents was not immediately clear. The girl said the young Corsicans' families then took to the streets and clashed with the North Africans. Two of the locals were injured by a harpoon, she said.
North African women slashed several car tyres, while locals set fire to two cars and overturned another that belonged to immigrant families. The clashes injured five people, all of whom were discharged from hospital by late Sunday, prosecutors said, adding that no arrests were made.
On Sunday demonstrators held talks at the local government office late in the morning. Afterwards, in tense scenes, the crowd called to be allowed to head up to the Lupino district of Bastia, which has a large North African community.
"We're going up there because this is our home," they said. Police blocked them from entering the area. Up to 100 members of the security forces were deployed to restore calm, police said.
The clashes come amid heightened tension in France after a string of attacks claimed by the Islamic State group, including the July 14th massacre in the southern city of Nice when a Tunisian ploughed a truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day, killing 85 people.
In Corsica last December, angry protesters vandalized a Muslim prayer hall and trashed copies of the Koran after an assault on firefighters that was blamed on local youths of Arab origin. The nearby French Riviera resort of Cannes has also sparked controversy by declaring a ban on burqinis - a ruling which won a court backing at the weekend.
Islamic dress has long been a hot-button issue in secular France, where the full-face veil is banned in public places.
Last month Corsican lawmakers called on the French state to close down radical mosques on the island, hours after an underground separatist movement issued a threat against Islamic extremists.
A splinter group of the nationalist Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) warned Islamists that any attack on the island would trigger "a determined response, without any qualms".
"From the halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli"
Imagine having “North Africans” forced on you in such tight quarters. Bravo to the brave standing up for their rights to “conserve” their community. The WSJ would have the Corsicans deported but not the “North Africans”.
To be frank, I see the alliance between the left and the muslims as one of fighting a common enemy - us, the traditional western culture.
If and when they destroy us, then they’ll go after each other, sort of like us and the soviets joining forces against Hitler and then we went after each other.
And in the fight between the left and the muslims, I would not sell the left short. History has shown that they can go very primitive and very brutal, as the marxists proved under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, etc.
So they just carry hatchets around with them?
“The Corsicans,Sardinians and Sicilians will take care of their islands its the French and Italian mainlands that worries me.”
Yep, though the southern Italians like the Calabrese and Neapolitans are not that different than the Sicilians. They have just a strong a proud identity.
Two of the locals were injured by a harpoon....
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Pretty sure that is not a phrase I ever read in a news article.
Yargh, harpoon wounds !
the moosehumps gotta go..back to muslim hellhole to live out their fantasy..
Well, there you go.... After all the names we call the French it seems they are the only ones with the stones to fight back....
Go figure...
Indeed.
Aquila48 we see this the same way. Grazie
The answer is simple: ban tourists taking photos on the beach/s
“And in the fight between the left and the muslims, I would not sell the left short. History has shown that they can go very primitive and very brutal, as the marxists proved under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, etc.”
To equate the sissy, bed-wetting, politically correct jellyfish leftists of the 21st century with the tough leftist street fighters and guerillas of the 20th century is laughable.
Let us hope they can be pushed over the edge into open war against Islam. We are all going to be fighting it at some point anyway, we might as well get it started while they are relatively weak.
Look at how they have bastardized "Natural Born Citizen" (Obama) and "Marriage". (Homos.)
The war on language is how they start.
Time to go all Napoleon on the Muzzie asses!
I would sorta prefer to feed the atheists to the Islamics. We need to provide other atheists examples of what happens when they drive out a benign religion.
It gets replaced with a VICIOUS one.
I keep telling people that our winning move is to foment hatred between the two groups and set them to fighting each other. Regardless of which side gets depleted, it is in our best, long term interests.
Talk about being pushed over the edge Corsica is an island with lots of cliffs to the sea.
This was my thinking. This is what the left has become.
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