The British tour operator TUI will repatriate all its customers staying in Sri Lanka, after the Easter attacks and the threat of new attacks, and cancel all trips sold to this destination. British tour operator TUI announces that it will repatriate all of its customers staying in Sri Lanka after the Easter attacks . He…
Six children are among the victims. The night raid took place near Kalmunai, a coastal town mostly populated by Muslims and located in the home province of Islamist Zahran Hashim. The latter is suspected of having organized the bloody Easter attacks. Sixteen people, including six children, were killed overnight from Friday to Saturday in an…
Every summer, in Kandy, the religious capital of Sri Lanka, the great Buddhist festival of Esala Perahera takes place. Flagship animation of the event: ten days of nightly processions of caparisoned elephants. This year, like every year, the elephant Tikiri was to be one of them… until photos of her physical state leaked onto the…
The government of Sri Lanka has decided to block access to social networks after the series of attacks that plagued the country on Sunday. A decision that worries digital rights defenders. The decision of the Sri Lankan authorities to block social networks after the series of deadly attacks on Sunday illustrates mistrust of these platforms…
A Frenchman was sentenced to 16 years of criminal imprisonment, Wednesday before the assizes in Versailles, for having raped or sexually assaulted at least 66 underage boys in Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Egypt, for ten years. The sentence of Thierry Darantière, 52, is accompanied by an injunction of care for 10 years. This verdict, rendered…
The Sri Lankan authorities announced on Friday that they are looking for 140 people suspected of having links with the jihadist group Islamic State. On Friday, a shooting erupted in eastern Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan police are looking for 140 people suspected of links to the Islamic State (IS) , five days after the attacks…
French NGO Action Against Hunger on Thursday urged the Sri Lankan government to allow a credible investigation into the 2006 murders of 17 of its aid workers. “We are waiting for concrete steps in the right direction. It is time to act, ” said Véronique Andrieux, Director General of Action Against Hunger (ACF), visiting the…
In Mayotte, 18 migrants from Sri Lanka were arrested by the police this Monday morning on a beach on the island, a first for the 101st French department. 16 men and 2 women. 18 Sri Lankan migrants , who would have left the Indian continent a fortnight ago, were arrested this Monday, May 27 on…
The South Asian country, bereaved after a series of attacks on Sunday, declared a State of Emergency and a night curfew from Monday. The Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency Monday and tracked the leaders of suicide attacks that killed at least 290 dead on Easter Sunday , including dozens of foreigners , an…
A landslide is said to have killed around 100 people on Wednesday in southern Sri Lanka. Hopes of finding survivors after a landslide in southern Sri Lanka on Wednesday were slim on Thursday morning, the minister, responsible for managing natural disasters, estimated the death toll at around 100. “I do not think he can stay…
Washington has recommended that American nationals “review” their travel plans in Sri Lanka, raising the level of alert in that country by one category. American diplomacy on Friday recommended its nationals to “review” their travel plans to Sri Lanka , raising the level of alert in this country by one category. “The US government has…
Seven elephants have been found dead in Sri Lanka since Friday. They were probably poisoned by villagers, police said. The facts are technically punishable by death in the country. In Sri Lanka , wildlife officials have discovered seven dead elephants since Friday. They were arguably poisoned by villagers infuriated by these animals which cause fatal…
Sri Lanka began voting on Saturday in its presidential election. A ballot that could allow the return to power of the dreaded Rajapaksa clan who ruled the island with an iron fist for a decade. Millions of Sri Lankans went to the polls on Saturday, November 16, to elect their new president. Almost five years…
Sri Lanka and several other countries are in the sights of radical Islam and movements affiliated with the jihadist international. These extremist organizations seek to spread by taking advantage of local tensions and the presence of militant Islamist groups, both in Asia and Africa. Claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, the Colombo (Sri Lanka)…
At least 207 people were killed and 450 injured this Sunday, April 21, in a series of explosions in luxury hotels and churches in Sri Lanka in the midst of Easter celebration, police said. Eight people were arrested but the wave of attacks had not been claimed at the end of the day. There are…
Sri Lankan police said on Wednesday April 24 that they had found no evidence of the direct involvement of the Islamic State (IS) group in the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, for which the jihadist organization claimed responsibility. Simultaneous attacks on churches and hotels in Colombo and the eastern part of the country claimed the…
The Cinnamon Grand hotel in Colombo was the scene of an attack that claimed the lives of 20 people, including five employees. It reopened its doors a few days ago with an important security device. But the tourists are not yet back. At the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, which has just reopened its doors…
Two men were arrested in Sri Lanka on suspicion of beating a leopard to death, a “sickening” act filmed and broadcast on social networks, authorities lamented on Sunday. The two men are accused of having killed the feline, considered an endangered species, on Thursday after the latter attacked a dozen people in a village 330…
The jihadist attacks on Sunday April 22 in Sri Lanka left 253 dead. Radical leader Zahran Hashim, who appears in a video calling for the Islamic State, was actively wanted. He was killed in a suicide attack on a large hotel. Sri Lankan extremist Zahran Hashim, suspected key man in the jihadist Easter Sunday attacks…
A few hours after the Ganesh parade, a major Parisian meeting for the Sri Lankan community, fourteen men were arrested by the police on Sunday afternoon. All of Sri Lankan origin, they were armed with axes, machetes and knives. The brawl left two injured. The 14 men remained in police custody for two days. The…
Their Christmas tree should break all records. The Sri Lankans have erected, despite many delays, the tallest artificial Christmas tree in the world (this will need to be confirmed by Guinness World Records). Its height: 57 meters. It will be illuminated Saturday evening by 600,000 colored bulbs, and adorned with a six-meter Santa Claus with…
Eight attacks, claimed by the Islamic State, killed more than 320 in Sri Lanka on Sunday in Catholic churches and luxury hotels. At the Cinnamon Grand Hotel in Colombo, a suicide bomber detonated his bomb in the dining room at breakfast time. A Vannetais was five stories higher in his hotel room. He tells. Johann,…
A 45-year-old Muslim trader died in northwest Sri Lanka on Monday after being lynched by mobs during anti-Muslim riots. A Muslim shopkeeper was fatally lynched by mobs during riots in Sri Lanka in retaliation for the Easter attacks, which targeted churches in particular, police said on Monday. A 45-year-old man died of his injuries shortly…
The attacks which left at least 290 dead in churches and hotels on Sunday April 21 were allegedly carried out by the small group NTJ (National Thowheeth Jama’ath), according to the government. Since the end of the civil war, friction between communities has remained very frequent in this predominantly Buddhist country. The civil war that…
This island in the Indian Ocean is like a zoo without a fence. Its rich fauna is revealed naturally. In the footsteps of elephants The green Jeep slows down and weaves its way between the vehicles stopped on the dirt road. The bust of tourists emerges through the open roofs. The fingers are pointed towards…
The death toll of the attacks perpetrated on Sunday against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, which the Islamic State (IS) group claimed, rose to 359 dead, a police spokesman said on Wednesday April 24, without more details. A spokesman for the Sri Lankan police announced this Wednesday, April 24 that the number of victims…
His name was Ramesh Raju. Before the terrorist attacks that plagued Sri Lanka at Easter, he volunteered to control the crowd. At the cost of his life, he prevented a suicide bomber from entering a church. A week after the attacks that hit several churches and hotels in Sri Lanka and left 253 dead and…
Sri Lanka reinstated the curfew on Tuesday, May 14, with a blocking of social networks extended to Twitter, the day after anti-Muslim riots that left one dead, three weeks after the jihadist attacks on Easter. Police said just over 80 people had been arrested in connection with the new violence. Anti-Muslim riots , which occur…
Sri Lanka’s ruling United National Party won the legislative elections, which will help its reform plans, but failed to secure an absolute majority. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s PNU won 106 out of 225 seats, dashing the hopes of former island strongman Mahinda Rajapakse to return to power. The United People’s Alliance for Freedom (APUL) led…
Sri Lankans voted overwhelmingly today to elect their new president. Between 70% and 80% of those registered on the electoral rolls voted according to election observers. This is the first presidential election since May 2009, the end of a 40-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which left more than 80,000 dead….