A group of pro-Palestinian extremists have claimed credit for a fire that consumed a McDonald’s restaurant building in France this week.
A fire broke out on Monday evening at a new McDonald’s restaurant still under construction in Montrabé, near Toulouse. The fire burned the building to a crisp before firefighters eventually put out the blaze in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
In the wake of the fire, a local activist group named Les Frites insoumise (the unruly fries) claimed responsibility for the fire, claiming that the arson attack was intended to support Palestinians and oppose the expansion of McDonald’s in France over the company’s support of Israel.
The radical group’s name was apparently influenced by the far-left La France insoumise (LFI) party of pro-Gaza zealot Jean-Luc
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