Out of 115 bombings in the first seven months of this year, 10 have targeted Arabs and eight of those have been clearly identified as racially motivated, in most cases because they were accompanied by racist graffiti or followed by claims of responsibility by shadowy racist groups.
Anti-Arab graffiti has spread over the picturesque island, whose main business is tourisism. "Arabs, the suitcase or the coffin," reads one spray-painted slogan.
But leaders of the independence movement have been quick to distance themselves from the anti-Arab violence.
"We've nothing to do with this," said Jean-Guy Talamoni, head of the Corsican nationalists in the island's provincial legislature.
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