2023-08-03 15:18:14
A preliminary investigation was opened by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office after the publication on Tuesday of a press release from the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) claiming responsibility for sixteen attacks, a judicial source said Thursday, August 3.
The investigation was opened for “association of criminals with a view to the preparation of acts of terrorism”, said this source. In this four-page press release sent to “Corse-Matin” and consulted by Agence France-Presse, the clandestine group claims thirteen attacks against residences, one against a vehicle of a “CRS officer” and two against bank branches, Société Générale de Corte in May 2023 and Crédit Agricole de Folelli in December 2021.
The FLNC evokes in this text “disproportionate settlement colonization” and one “process of destruction of the Corsican people” who is not “not yet irreversible” and call ” as quickly as possible “ the Corsicans to “help fight” par “acts of resistance”. The group threatens craftsmen, construction companies, “speculators and all those who enrich themselves on the back of our extinction”particularly aimed at “Corsican accomplices” Who “must be accountable” pour “having sold their land, and therefore their soul, to the highest bidders”. The FLNC also denigrates the negotiations in progress between Paris and the Corsican elected officials, believing that they will not give rise, ” the best “that at “further decentralization”.
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Upsurge in arson
The last press release from the FLNC dated back to March 21, the anniversary of the death of independence activist Yvan Colonna, who died following an attack in prison. In total, 17 attacks had been claimed.
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Corsica is currently experiencing an upsurge in arson attacks mainly targeting second homes, most often with nationalist tags. According to the judicial source, 50 investigations “in connection with arson or acts of destruction of various kinds” in Corsica have been opened by the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office since the beginning of the year. There were 22 in 2022, three in 2021 and four in 2020.
“Currently, fourteen judicial inquiries are in progress in the Corsican terrorist litigation” of the anti-terrorist pole of the Paris judicial court, said the same source. One of these instructions relates to the Ghjuventu Clandestina Corsa movement (Corsican clandestine youth), with at least five people indicted. The movement had announced its creation in early February and claimed responsibility for the destruction of houses.
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