Saturday, April 30, 2016

Muslim Prayer Hall on Corsica Island Set on Fire; Prayer Hall in Corsica Also Ransacked 4 Mos. Ago

A Muslim prayer hall was seriously damaged by fire last night in the capital of the French island of Corsica -- four months after another Muslim prayer hall there was ransacked -- the Reuters website reports today (April 30, 2016).

No one was injured in the fire in the city of Ajaccio (birthplace of the famous French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte), which police are investigating as criminal after finding two separate sources of fire inside the hall.

"This is unacceptable," Ajaccio mayor Laurent Marcangeli said on Corsican television. "Those sites are not sufficiently protected."

In late December, the Mediterranean island was rocked by days of racial tension after firemen in Ajaccio were attacked on a housing estate with a large immigrant population and a Muslim prayer hall was attacked in anti-immigrant protests that followed.

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