It’s not the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), but it looks like it. Same semantics, same claims and same forms of action. For nearly a year, GCC was only a mysterious acronym, a signature, spray-painted on walls and facades in Corsica. On Tuesday February 7, Ghjuventu Clandestina Corsa (GCC) – “Corsican clandestine youth” in French – officially declared his birth certificate. Like his big brother born on May 5, 1976, the declaration was made through the press. Morning runthe island daily, received an unauthenticated press release from this new group on Tuesday, which conceals nothing of its parentage and intentions.
“We are following in the footsteps of the FLNC, but today it seems to be detached from the fight, so it is up to us, the Corsican youth, to take it up again in order to stand up to the French state and its contempt », write its authors, who ask themselves “armed with a revolutionary movement”. From the outset, the small group, which is still far from having the structural organization of its elder, claims seventeen attacks committed mainly in Corse-du-Sud against residences, a construction machine and a campsite between July 4 2022 and January 27.
Fourteen of these acts perpetrated after the demonstrations enamelled with violence following the fatal attack against Yvan Colonna in his prison in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), on March 2, 2022, are the subject of investigations carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office. National Anti-Terrorism, which seized it on February 3. This group, of which, according to several sources, the most active nucleus is from Ajaccio, asks in particular “the release of Charles Pieri”one of the former FLNC leaders in pre-trial detention in Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) since December 2022, “the truth about the assassination of Yvan Colonna and the reconciliation of political prisoners”. He also claims “the establishment, within three years, of compulsory Corsican lessons and, at least, one bilingual class per school”from CP class.
Persistent conflagration risks
For the time being, this small group has little influence on the island’s political situation. Nevertheless, his activism and this announcement are taken seriously by the police and justice services. Solicited by The world, Jean-Jacques Fagni, the Attorney General at the Bastia Court of Appeal, refuses to dramatize. ” Worried ? No. Concerned? Yes, because we are on a logic of appeasement and this movement wants to weaken this process “, he noted. According to him, this group does not present the characteristics of a clandestine organization “capable of preparing sophisticated attacks”. The magistrate considers that he is dealing with activists, but not with “soldiers” prepared for large-scale attacks, such as Corsica experienced during the “blue nights” which shook the island between 1976 and the mid-1990s. 1990.
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