Tensions are rising on the Mediterranean Island of Corsica, a province of France, where authorities have banned all public protest after a series of anti-Muslim demonstrations were triggered by attacks on police and Firemen in a primarily Muslim neighbourhood. The unrest comes little more that a week after the “For Corsica” nationalistic coalition of parties swept to power in the Island’s local elections. On Friday, a crowd of 600 gathered by a fire station in a show of support with the authorities, after two firefighters and a police officer were “ambushed” by “several hooded youths” in the low-income, primarily Arab, Jardins de l’Empereur housing estate in the capital of Ajaccio. One of the firefighters at the scene had claimed the youths who attacked them shouted: “Scram, Corsicans, you’re not at home here!” La video de l'attaque de la salle de prière musulmane #Ajaccio pic.twitter.com/4BnmFFa2BD — Nacéra (@NasNacera) December 26, 2015 The protesters who gathered later that day chanted slogans in Corsican meaning “Arabs get out!” and “This is our home!” with a small break away group ransacking a local Muslim prayer room and burning copies of the Koran. The French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, wrote on Twitter that the attack on