Sardinia is an island (and an Italian province) in the Mediterranean, west of the Italian mainland. Like Corsica (which is a French possession), Sardinia has a long history of resistance against Moorish Muslim invaders. And like the Corsican flag, the Sardinian flag features the severed head of a Moor. Four of them, actually (the flag is known as “The Four Moors [Italian: I quattro mori]); whereas the Corsican version has but one. As if to say: “Four dead Moors are better than one!”
Someone recently set off a bomb on the doorstep of a migrant center in Corsica. During one of the interviews in the video below, you can see a local resident in the background wearing a “Four Moors” t-shirt. I don’t know if it’s significant, but it’s there.
Many thanks to Elle Bowlly for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Video transcript:
| 00:00 | Everything collapsed. We don’t know what happened. They want to kill us. | |
| 00:08 | Everybody was asleep. We heard a ‘boom’ sound. | |
| 00:12 | We’ve seen demonstrations, signs and barricades, but this time, in Sardinia’s | |
| 00:17 | Dorgali migrant center in Babbu Mannu, an explosive device was set off. | |
| 00:24 | Investigations are still underway, but this was certainly a warning. | |
| 00:27 | This center is bothering someone. | |
| 00:30 | Maybe they don’t want us to stay here. —Since last night, we’ve had no sleep. | |
| 00:35 | We’re afraid, that’s why we’re staying outside. | |
| 00:39 | The device was left outside the doorway. A few steps away from the young men’s bedrooms. | |
| 00:44 | You can still see the crater left from the explosion. | |
| 00:48 | Pieces of the door were catapulted as far as thirty metres away. | |
| 00:52 | Out of the 63 migrants present in the building at the time, two Nigerians were injured. | |
| 00:58 | This was an agritourism center that was converted into a migrant shelter a year ago. | |
| 01:02 | We tried contacting the representative of the cooperative ‘The Others’ but they didn’t pick up. | |
| 01:08 | They’re too many for such a small place. What do they spend their time doing? | |
| 01:14 | If the appropriate housing for them were available… but there’s nothing there. | |
| 01:21 | The building needs to have drinking water and adequate sanitary facilities. | |
| 01:24 | Without this, they shouldn’t be allowed to stay. | |
| 01:27 | The building isn’t in good condition. —I don’t think so. | |
| 01:32 | (Parson of Dorgali) I didn’t expect this at all. We’re just trying to calm things down. | |
| 01:40 | Is there someone who wants to cause these people harm? —I don’t think so. But it appears there is. | |
| 01:45 | We haven’t had problems with anybody. We didn’t expect to be attacked by our city. | |
| 01:50 | 8,000 people inhabit this overly-privileged village, but they seem divided. —Why doesn’t the EU | |
| 01:56 | help them in their own countries? —They need to be assimilated and given some responsibilities. | |
| 02:00 | What do these young men do? Leaving them like that is mistreating them. What hopes do they have? | |
| 02:07 | (Mayor of Dorgali) The issue is that Italy’s paperwork procedures are extremely slow | |
| 02:15 | and we end up having to handle everyone who comes here. This is obviously the cause of tensions. | |
| 02:20 | Although this doesn’t justify these kinds of acts in any way. —The investigation continues. | |
| 02:24 | The Prefect will be the one deciding what’s to be done, and whether the migrants should be moved. | |
| 02:30 | I don’t know what will happen next. |
What qualifies as ‘overly privileged’ in Sardinia?
I caught that also. An odd thing to say unless you have an agenda which might be to put the locals in a bad light…
” I don’t know what will happen next”, says the last interviewee. Well, in a sane world you and the rest of your fellow invaders would be deported back to Africa. That’s what should happen next, all over Europe.
Resistance Fighters
Cafe Press T-Shirts have Sardinian ‘4 Moors’ t-shirts.