Gérald Darmanin postpones his trip planned for Wednesday and Thursday to Corsica

2024-02-05 08:14:00

Gérald Darmanin, who was to go to Corsica on Wednesday and Thursday to continue discussions on the status of the island, has decided to postpone his trip for “a few weeks” because “the peaceful conditions are not met”, said Sunday evening, the Ministry of the Interior.

First there was an event which did not please Gérald Darmanin when “island political leaders” refused to condemn “the invasion of the property of the Minister of Justice” on Saturday, Beauvau indicated, confirming information from Corsica Morning. Corsican independence activists entered a house presented by them as belonging to Éric Dupond-Moretti, in the village of Centuri (Haute-Corse). On An investigation into home invasion and aggravated damage was opened by the Bastia public prosecutor’s office.

Action of #CoreInFronte in Centuri at the second home of Eric Dupond Moretti.
Our presence is symbolic and political.
It aims to denounce the repressive mechanisms in Corsica, which are multiple and continuous. pic.twitter.com/3AKVWtGSjH

— Core in Fronte (@coreinfronte) February 3, 2024

But this postponement is also motivated by the insufficient progress of Corsica’s elected officials on the common copy that they must present, according to a source close to the matter. This postponement also aims to give them “more time” to work, the same source specifies.

If Beauvau affirms that “Gérald Darmanin will carry out political consultations with Corsican elected officials this week in Paris”, this postponement is condemned by the separatists. “For Core in Fronte, the government itself creates a situation of tension with its provocative repression” and “plays the card of rot and repressive tension to make the discussions fail,” reacted this movement. He asks the government “that instead of maneuvering for a discounted consensus, that it respects the democratic and majority choice of the Corsicans expressed by the motion of July 5, 2023 which requests recognition of the Corsican people and their rights with a title in the constitution and true autonomy.”