The President of the Executive Board of Corsica refuses to pay a fine of 86 million euros due to Corsica Ferries. The prefect threatens to take the sum in the territorial crates.
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How far can the iron arm go between the Corsica community and the government? Two shy gatherings organized, Saturday, December 4, in front of the prefectures of Ajaccio and Bastia translate this rise in pressure from Femu a Corsica (“Let’s do Corsica”), the party of Gilles Simeoni. This improvised return to the street, which brought together about 500 people, rings as a failure, far from the rainfall rivers to which the nationalist family is used.
It occurs even as crucial negotiations are pending between Paris and Corsica. In the middle of the week, Simeoni, the President of the Executive Board of Corsica, met in Paris Jacqueline GOURAULT, the Minister of Cohesion of Territories and Relations with Territorial Communities, to try to get out of the rut. Expected on the island in mid-November, the coming of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, remains to re-register on the calendar.
Two pebbles in the sandal of Mr. Simeoni rock the relationship between the island and the central power. On the one hand, the reconciliation at Borgo Prison (Haute-Corse) of the three members of the commando who murdered the Prefect Erignac, in 1998, sentenced to the perpetuity criminal imprisonment. Incarcerated for twenty-two years, Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi can be freed conditionally, as well as Van Colonna, who spent eighteen years behind the bars. On October 22, 2021, a solemn resolution of the Executive Council and the Corsica Assembly requested their immediate approximation, “in accordance with the French and European law”, and the lifting of their particularly reported inmate status which blocks, according to Prison administration, transfer to the island.
86 million euros due to Corsica Ferries
The other Casus Belli, it is the refusal, on 18 November, by the President Simeoni to inscribe the additional budget of the fine of 86 million euros due to the company Corsica Ferries because of The illegality of the complementary service for the Fire Profit The SNCM from 2007 to 2013. Daily interests of 14,000 euros raise the bill. “One can not assume a debt that is not ours, it is to the state to answer,” said Mr. Simeoni, believing that this choice to help the SNCM was the application of ‘a government record.
One of the assumptions put forward from the impasse would be the settlement of half of the amount by increasing the territorial continuity endowment or other channels but also a paid payment. “I can not reveal the bottom of the current discussions, but the account is not there, the proposals seem insufficient to me,” said Simeoni. According to the president of the Corsican executive, “it takes a political solution with all of all the living forces, with modalities that remain to be defined and during a public discussion, not clandestine, with the aim of an autonomy of full and exercise full “.
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