Thirty elected nationalist officials have occupied on 24 February, from the premises of the region’s prefecture in Ajaccio, against the balance by the prefect of litigation with the Maritime Corsica Ferries company. Gilles Simeoni, President of the Corsican executive, denounced “a rocking point” with the state.
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The anger of Corsican nationalists has found political binding. Forty territorial advisers have invested, Thursday, February 24, the préfecture of Corsica in Ajaccio for five hours and smooth, suspending the session of the Corsica Assembly where the budget orientations in the afternoon were examined.
One delegation of elected officials belonging to the three nationalist territorial formations, fierce adversaries, but weighed a total of 68% in the 2021 territorial elections (Fà Populu inseme, Avanzemu, Core in Fronte), led this action with a Handle of activists in front of the press. A small group attached to the balcony of the prefecture a large mast supporting a Corsican flag as well as two banners where one could read “Around Basta” (pretty, now) and “Populu Arritu” (people standing). Outside where a hundred activists were grouped around the executive president, Gilles Simeoni, who did not cross the prefectural rubicon, two other banners mentioned “settlers forra” (settlers outside) and “A Francia Fora” (France outside).
“This is a political and symbolic act but will not be unique, hammered the adviser (Fà Populu inseme) Jean Bancucci. We want to live as corses, as a people, with our heritage , our language and person or the prefect, neither the state will prevent us from speaking. “Despite the disunion of the old territorial coalition between autonomists and independence, the elected representative pleads for the sacred union and gives an appointment to” The whole nationalist family “next week in Corte.
“It is not an occupation since the Corsican community has been the owner of the prefectural building since 2018, it is at home,” said yesterday an official, stating that the prefect, locked in his office – to thirty meters from the nationalists -, under the discreet guard of CRS and police, did not want to speak.
Strong markers
This action comes after political tensions that have been Crescendo in Corsica for two months. Why does the relationship between Corsica and Paris seemed to be fine fixed at the end of December, 2021? Is it the triumphalism posted from the Simeoni clan announcing that the government yielded on the status of autonomy? Or the return of the hawks of macronist power, strongly Jacobins and making the question of the Corsican reconciliation of the three prisoners of the commando Erignac, a red line?
“We put naked and pushed into its entrenchments the deep state and reacts,” says MP Jean-Félix Acquaviva (Freedoms and Territories). The divorce between the two banks is characterized by strong markers for nationalists. On January 28, Commander Pierre Bertolini, 98, was raised in Nice Grand-Croix of the Legion of Honor. Resistant to 16, hero of the wars of Indochina and Algeria, Mr. Bertolini is known on the island for the operational leader of the Clandestine Francia network, a member of the suspected civic action service to have led a hundred attacks against nationalists.
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