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".
Neither do Sicilians in this matter. Muslims were ruthless in both Corsica and Sicily during the time before the Crusades, even worse than the Greeks and Romans before them.
Whatever works.
they pull a hatchet, you pull a harpoon.
thats the corsican way....
“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”.
Wow.
I had to sit down after reading that.
Good for them. God be with them.
The entire world needs to be in a full on war against Islam to wipe them off the face of the earth.
sounds at least like a few men are waking up and behaving like men...
Happened before during the Stalin purges of his fellow commies. They were praising him as they were being executed thinking it was all a mistake that Uncle Joe had made.
but put them in among those stone age animals and even they will suddenly get an awakening..
Has the National Liberation Front of Corsica spoken yet?
Lenin and his bolsheviks weren’t exactly fearsome warriors, but they were true believers. They don’t have to do the dirty work, they can recruit the thugs.
Look at Obama and Holder and what they did in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, and now Milwaukee.
Lenin and his bolsheviks weren’t exactly fearsome warriors, but they were true believers. Lenin was a bookish theoretician . They don’t have to do the dirty work, they can recruit the thugs.
Look at Obama and Holder and what they did in Ferguson, Baltimore, New York, and now Milwaukee.
Corsica without muzzies is the most dangerous turf in Western Europe these days
Ragheads pedophile worshippers tread at their own risk
These ain’t swedes
I had that very conversation with my Mercedes mechanic who was working on my FJ oddly enough
Almost verbatim your analysis
Uncle Joe don’t make mistakes. He got letters from Siberia from his old pals who thought some underling had arrested them by mistake. He thought they were hilarious.
Call me Ishmael....
:)
Orwell was a very smart man.
That would be true, if you take the conflict at face value. The more likely, and intended, consequence would be a “peacekeeping” force. The ultimate goal of all the globalist destabilization is to institute a worldwide police state. After all, we can’t expect local police or military to respond without bias. The benevolent peacekeepers will ensure equal protection for all.
The collapse of the world economy in conjunction with the violence intentionally spurred by “immigration” is designed to culminate in the most widespread collapse in history, and like Rahm Emmanuel said,”You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
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