[Telegraph] Riot police were summoned and a man was wounded by a harpoon when a mass brawl erupted at a beach in Corsica, apparently triggered by a tourist taking a photo of women in 'burkinis'. The riot took place on Saturday in a cove near the village of Sisco in the north of the island.Sisco mayor Ange-Pierre Vivoni said, "It happened because a tourist was taking photos,” said , the local mayor. 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, North African men harangued the tourist who took the pictures, prompting local youngsters to intervene in defense of the visitor. 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 tumult lasted for several hours, during which three cars were burned and four people were taken to hospital, one of them for an injury caused by a harpoon. A pregnant woman was among those hospitalized.
Tensions were still high on Sunday, when a mob of around 500 gathered in the nearby town of Bastia and tried to enter a housing estate with a large immigrant population, chanting, "To arms, this is our place and we will go where we want."
Riot police held back the mob, which eventually dispersed.