Britons 'attacked by Breton extremists'

[Cirrus]

Britons 'attacked by Breton extremists'
By Tim Finan in Callac

An English couple who moved to France to open a restaurant after serving in Iraq have been attacked by suspected Breton extremists unhappy at the number of Britons settling in the region.


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Linsey Widd, 24, from Scarborough, and her husband Darren, 33, from Worcestershire, were woken in the night by smoke and fumes and found their car on fire in front of the restaurant they run in the village of Callac in western Brittany.

Before fire services reached the scene, the burning vehicle rolled downhill into another car, which exploded.

If confirmed as an attack by Breton extremists, it would be the third in north-western Brittany in 10 days.

The Widds, who spent three months with the 26th Artillery Regiment in Iraq before moving to France, found the charred remains of a rag that had been stuffed into the fuel cap of their car.

"What shocked us was that there was no warning. We love it here. Callac is a quiet village with quite a large population of English," said Mrs Widd.

"We bought a property that was previously a TV repair shop and turned it into a restaurant. We called it 'Le -Rendezvous' and took care to write all the signs in French. We had the usual bureaucratic problems setting up the business when we first came just over a year ago but the local people were very friendly. We have French and English customers coming into the restaurant to eat and drink."

House prices, which have risen by up to 300 per cent in the area since large numbers of Britons started moving in, are now too expensive for many locals.

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[Milesian]

The title is misleading in itself. A more accurate title would beL

Saxons "attacked by Briton extremists"

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Milesian

The title is misleading in itself. A more accurate title would beL

Saxons "attacked by Briton extremists"

A yet more accurate people would be:

The Return of King Arthur: Briton Patriots Rise Against Anglo-Saxon Invasion

House prices, which have risen by up to 300 per cent in the area since large numbers of Britons started moving in, are now too expensive for many locals.

I wonder how those Breton Patriots feel about people who, like Youenn, have cheered the coming of the English.

[OneEnglishNorman]

Seems like a similar problem to the English arriving in Wales, pushing up the cost of housing and other services. It's really negative for the Breton nation. The offspring of these English families will not remotely regard themselves as French, just lots of "little Englands" in Britanny.

[Milesian]

Originally Posted by OneEnglishNorman

Seems like a similar problem to the English arriving in Wales, pushing up the cost of housing and other services. It's really negative for the Breton nation. The offspring of these English families will not remotely regard themselves as French, just lots of "little Englands" in Britanny.

True. And it's bad for England if the Anglo-Saxons are leaving whilst being replaced from immigrants from elsewhere.
This modern nomad culture will ruin all.

[Kernunnos]

What animals.

On Garda lake we should be shooting the germans any day because they own the best old farms and ancient lemon greenhouses, whose prices have really skyrocketed because of their interest.

Why don't they reserve such niceties to arabs in the banlieues?

So they are wasting their energies too.

[Cirrus]

I disapprove such actions, but this speculative movement need to be stopped one day. And the English are not the only ones : Parisians and rich French people also buy houses in Brittany, and I don't think it is better for Bretons.

Originally Posted by Breha

Why don't they reserve such niceties to arabs in the banlieues?

So they are wasting their energies too.

Well, it's not the same phenomenon : Central Brittany is a mostly rural country with not many immigrants.

[Gil]

Wish I could do the same to some chinese... *whistle*

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Salaün

I disapprove such actions, but this speculative movement need to be stopped one day. And the English are not the only ones : Parisians and rich French people also buy houses in Brittany, and I don't think it is better for Bretons.

Well, first were the Bretons establishing in Paris and elsewhere in France (the "Breton" are no few outside Britttany) cause it was such a poor place.

Brittany is not the only place where houses prices have risen with the coming of British or Dutch. Those attacks are quite stupid, anyway. As if this family alone was responsible. It's a primary reaction.

[Menydh]

Here in my region we are having the same problem with the English. First it was the coasts and now it is almost any corner in the countryside.

As a first step, it is time to monitor the vote to BNP among those people. It wouldn't be right that they support a party that has been so hostile to the country where they are living now, don't you agree Carnyx?

[Cirrus]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

As a first step, it is time to monitor the vote to BNP among those people. It wouldn't be right that they support a party that has been so hostile to the country where they are living now, don't you agree Carnyx?

I don't think that many British house owners are BNP sympathisers. But who knows...

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

As a first step, it is time to monitor the vote to BNP among those people. It wouldn't be right that they support a party that has been so hostile to the country where they are living now, don't you agree Carnyx?

I do. I've no idea how they behave, I only hope they aren't as hostile as in the past.

[Sergius]

Originally Posted by Carnyx

Those attacks are quite stupid, anyway. As if this family alone was responsible. It's a primary reaction.

Agreed, but if they get the message across to others, it is getting the job done.

[Menydh]

Originally Posted by Salaün

I don't think that many British house owners are BNP sympathisers. But who knows...

They've been interested enough in that sector of the British voters in the past. As their numbers grows, so must grow the interest of the BNP in them.

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Breha

Why don't they reserve such niceties to arabs in the banlieues?

So they are wasting their energies too.

Why didn't those English in question stay in their country in order to defend their land against the Paki invasion? Instead of that, they are running away from their own place and doing damage (by sky-rocketing prices, for example) to other countries.