Corsicans are not like Northern Europeans. In fact, although they’re ostensibly French, and speak a French patois (at least I think it’s a French patois — I can’t really understand it at all, unless they say “merde” or something), they’re not like the French, nor even the Italians. Their general cultural characteristics are more Sicilian than anything else.

Last Sunday we posted about a confrontation between North African Muslims and Corsican natives on a beach near Sisco. The trouble plainly originated with the culture-enrichers, who attacked the natives with machetes and at least one harpoon, among other weapons. The natives did not take kindly to this behavior, and visited the local Muslim enclave en masse to express their disapproval.

The media circulated a report that the trouble began when a non-Muslim took a photo of a Muslim woman in a burkini, thereby arousing the anger of Muslim males. In other words: the Corsicans had been culturally insensitive, and that’s why the Muslims became angry and grabbed their harpoons.

It turns out that the story of the burkini-photo was bogus. The trouble actually started because the “Maghrebins” attempted to privatize the beach — that is, turn it into a Muslims-only location where sharia rules must be enforced. A young woman was sunbathing topless — which is normal in France and Corsica — but the new owners of the beach objected by throwing stones at her.

Below are two videos about the Sisco beach incident that are worth watching. The first is a Facebook rant by a young Corsican that went massively viral. The second is a news report that validates the young Corsican’s video, and confirms the real reason why the confrontation began. It also reports the happy news that all the detained Corsican natives who had been involved in the brawl were released, and any charges against them had been dropped.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling.

Video #1:

Video #2:

Transcript Video 1 (edited):

00:02 How are you going to understand that your s***ty communitarianism

00:03 we don’t want it in Corsica? We don’t want it! and even less your intolerance

00:08 because all that started with your intolerance:

00:12 a group of tourists, because there was a woman with bare breasts

00:16 It all started from that. All started with your intolerance. What does it mean?

00:20 It means that in our country you have right to bathe in burkini

00:24 that isn’t our tradition, given that we are in Corsica and we’re in a Christian country

00:28 and if you want to bathe you can bathe in a swimming suit or with bare breasts

00:32 So it’s your intolerance that provoked all that. Attacking that couple

00:36 of tourists, because that woman was bathing with her breast naked, which is legal

00:40 which is her right 100%. We are in France in Corsica, if she wants to swim

00:44 with her breasts bared, it’s her right. And your s****y communitarianism

00:48 here, we won’t accept it. We won’t accept it!

00:52 Same thing with what you did to this poor 15-year-old boy: attacking him with a machete

00:56 A 15-year-old kid! Luckily the handle broke, or you would have opened his skull and cut it in two!

01:00 If you cut his skull open, what are we supposed to do? What do we have to do?

01:04 Do we have to kill you and all your family? We have to

01:08 kill all of you? We’ll kill all of you! The Corsican

01:12 he’s as crazy as you are! Keep that in mind! The Corsican is even more

01:16 vicious and more nuts than you. And we proved it to you, we proved it to you

01:20 at the Sisco beach. Honestly! What’s that?

01:24 Are you coming here for vacations and who do you think you are? What do you think, that the Corsicans

01:28 will let it go? That we will suck it up? Like the Europeans form the continent?

01:32 There, the Corsican doesn’t suck it up! He carries his head high

01:36 and he seeks confrontation and he confronts you and he comes behind you

01:40 and he whacks you and he makes your face explode even more

01:44 Like when one of you were being put in the ambulance and someone still came and hit you in the face

01:48 F**k ! It really got me hard! You know,

01:52 for two days! Who do you think you are? We are tolerant with you,

01:56 we are giving and that’s how you’re giving back to us!

02:01 You need to understand, the Corsican won’t suck it up!

02:04 You won’t rule here, you won’t! Or else we’ll

02:05 get together and it’s always the same: we get inside your house and we kill all of you!

02:13 We’ll kill all of you! You are the ones removing our tolerance!

02:17 We’ll be intolerant as well!

02:21 As soon as there will be a smallest thing we won’t like, boom! we’ll hit

02:25 straight away! Is that what you want? 20 years back

02:29 20 years ago or even less, go in burkini on the beach and try to bathe!

02:33 we would have seen how you ended up. Hanged by your feet and your head chopped off

02:37 There we are tolerant and we say nothing and that’s how you’re giving back: puncturing tires

02:41 Attacking tourists and young people who only wanted to calm you down.

02:45 A 15-year-old kid, and you, you attack him with a machete! Additionally

02:49 you ware full of coke, you gang of f*****g junkies, ‘cos you ‘re f*****g junkies on top of all

02:53 Cos it seems you fell from I don’t know from which height, and you were fine

02:57 You were fine on top of all; so much coke in the nose, you were a super-human!

03:01 You pack of sewer rats! that’s what you are!

03:05 You are in Corsica, and you won’t rule you won’t!

03:09 Do you want to bathe in burkini, go to a Western country and go ahead!

03:13 Here it’s a Christian country: you don’t do it! You don’t do it!

03:17 You swim in a swimming suit like everybody else! If I’m going to a Western country tomorrow

03:21 and they tell me you shouldn’t to bathe like that on the beach, it’s not how we do it, then well

03:25 I ask: how do I bathe here? and I bathe.

03:29 I’m in a foreign country and I am integrating, voila! Because it’s a provocation

03:33 what you are doing! It’s a provocation! Of course it’s a provocation!

03:37 It’s not related to your religion, not related to Allah, no!

03:41 It’s just a provocation to p**s people off! Well,

03:45 here, you don’t p*ss people off, or if you do, they’ll punch you in the face

03:49 You get a beating, your car will be trashed and your face exploded

03:53 On the beach they didn’t respect anybody! They hit women, children , husbands, everybody!

03:57 We don’t give a s**t, as soon there’s one out of the line we’ll punch!

04:01 No little conversations, we punch right away! We don’t try to understand

04:05 That’s how we do it here! So either you get it or you f**k off!

04:09 Or you get lost! You are not happy with what Corsica is giving you, our beautiful Corsica

04:13 you’re not happy? Then f***k off! Go back on the continent

04:17 Go back to a Western country, I don’t know where in the world’s ass, and stop p*ssing us off!

04:21 Stop p***ing us off, because we won’t be tolerant any longer!