Corsica: Muslims riot, burn cars, attack non-Muslims with harpoons over tourist photo
Corsica: Muslims riot, burn cars, attack non-Muslims with harpoons over tourist photo
AUGUST 14, 2016 3:18 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
How well assimilated do you think these Muslims will be in five years? Ten? At what point does charity toward refugees shade over into civilizational suicide?
“Man ‘injured by harpoon’ during riot on Corsica beach after tourist takes photo of woman in burkini,” by Rory Mulholland, Telegraph, August 14, 2016 (thanks to John):
Riot police were summoned and a man was injured by a harpoon when a mass brawl broke out on a beach in Corsica, apparently triggered by a tourist taking a photo of women in “burkinis”.
The incident came after the mayor of Cannes banned women from wearing the full-body, head-covering swimsuits on beaches of his Riviera town.
The riot in Corsica took place on Saturday in a cove near the village of Sisco in the north of the French Mediterranean island.
“It happened because a tourist was taking photos,” said Ange-Pierre Vivoni, the local mayor, on TF1 television. “And the Maghrebins (North Africans) didn’t want to have their photos taken. It was quite a trivial matter to begin with.”
Things got out of hand when young men of North African origin harangued the tourist who took the pictures, prompting local youngsters to intervene in defence of the visitor.
Police are still trying to establish how the incident turned into a riot, but local media said that a group of older North African men soon arrived, some armed with hatchets and harpoons, and took on the young Corsicans.
The unrest lasted for several hours, during which three cars were burned and four people had to be taken to hospital, one of them for a wound caused by a harpoon. A pregnant woman was among those hospitalised. Bernard Cazeneuve, the interior minister, was forced to issue a statement calling for calm.
Tensions were still high on Sunday, when a crowd of around 500 gathered in the nearby town of Bastia and tried to enter a housing estate with a high immigrant population. They chanted: “To arms, this is our place and we will go where we want.”…
Corsica: Muslims riot, burn cars, attack non-Muslims with harpoons over tourist photo
