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…
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…
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…
Attacks on Easter Sunday targeting hotel churches in Sri Lanka left 290 dead and 500 injured. Among the victims, the children of Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen at the head of a ready-to-wear group. Several dozen foreigners perished in the attacks, including a Frenchman. Three of the four children of Anders Holch Povlsen, considered Denmark’s…
The toll of Sunday’s attacks in Sri Lanka in the midst of the celebration of Easter rose on Tuesday, April 23 to 320 dead after several wounded succumbed to their injuries. The toll is still growing in Sri Lanka . The wave of deadly attacks in the country on Sunday April 21 during Easter celebrations…
An Emirates Airbus A380 was forced to make an emergency landing in Sri Lanka at Bandaranaike airport. Smoke had been detected in the cockpit An Emirates A380 carrying more than 500 people was forced to make an emergency landing in Sri Lanka on Friday after pilots detected smoke in the cockpit, an official at Colombo…
A huge swarm of wasps descended on a temple in Mundal, 110 kilometers north of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, as pilgrims celebrated Buddha’s birthday there. Fifty of them had to be hospitalized. Wasp attacks are particularly feared in the country, which also proceeded on Tuesday to clean up nests in a tea plantation district in…
Sri Lankan police on Friday discovered the body of a 24-year-old journalist from the British daily Financial Times. The young man would probably have been killed by a crocodile. Paul McClean’s body was discovered by divers in the peat moss of a lagoon in the coastal village of Panama, Sri Lanka , in the southeastern…
A 17-year-old teenager was arrested Monday in Sri Lanka on suspicion of hacking President Maithripala Sirisena’s website to post a message calling on the head of state to postpone an examination or to resign. The young pirate, whose identity has not been made public, has been remanded in custody. He faces three years in prison…
The Christian community of Sri Lanka has just been struck by eight explosions, in the midst of the celebration of Easter. A seventh explosion killed at least two people in a Colombo hotel. These explosions caused the death of at least 158 people, according to the police report which remains provisional. 35 foreigners perished in…
Two Sarthois couples are currently traveling to Sri Lanka. Anne-Marie evokes the climate of state of emergency in which the country has been plunged since the deadly attacks on Sunday. By setting foot on Sri Lankan soil on April 13, they did not expect to find themselves at the heart of international news. Ten days…