Is the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) rising from its ashes? This is a hypothesis that the internal security services on the island do not exclude after a dozen actions carried out against villas and a campsite since 1is january. An escalation which continued after the fatal attack, in detention, on March 2, of Yvan Colonna, 61, convicted for the assassination of the prefect Erignac but today raised to the rank of “Martyr of the Corsican cause” by nationalists. The Corsican street, overflowing with the anger of young activists turned into rioters, experienced, intermittently, a month of urban violence during which between 160 and 170 police officers were injured, counts the union police unit SGP-FO.
The clandestine FLNC who had intervened during the campaign for the territorial elections of June 2021 do not stop announcing their return, after having declared the 1is September 2021 that they would resume “the paths of the fighting night” and “the state’s policy of contempt continued”. On March 16, they again said they support the “Corsican youth in struggle”. With, this time again, a threat: “And quickly, the street fights of today will be those of the maquis of the night tomorrow. »
For the time being, none of the fires perpetrated against homes has been claimed by the small group, any more than the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office has taken up these cases, which are not legally considered as attacks. Between March 2 and April 14, eight second homes were targeted. Criminal acts accompanied by inscriptions like « IFF » (acronym ofThe French are out“the French outside”), or “Per Yvan” (For Ivan). 1is In September, the FLNC claimed responsibility for the burning of two bungalows in Ajaccio, in the protected site of Capo di Feno.
“Change in modus operandi”
On April 13, that of a house located in Pianottoli-Caldarello, in the far south, sparked a wave of indignation. Its walls have been signed “Youth action for the rebirth of Corsica”. The owner of the small villa, an octogenarian of Corsican origin residing in Switzerland, was moved by the media, explaining, in tears, her ” incomprehension “.
Seized for these fires, the local prosecutors play caution. “It is too early to draw conclusions, especially since we are still in a political sequence”notes Nicolas Septe, the prosecutor of Ajaccio, who admits not having “not yet enough perspective”. For his Bastia counterpart, Arnaud Viornery, to speak of a return to the attacks is “drawing plans on the comet”.
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