Hairway opposed protesters and CRS near Bastia and Ajaccio. A Cargèse, an explosion took place on Saturday at Sunday
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The tension does not fall into Corsica where incidents enamelled the evening of Sunday, March 27 in front of the County of the Furiani CRS (Haute-Corse). For five hours, while 400 to 500 protesters were massaged at the edge of this barracks, targeted by several attacks in the past, the CRS repealed the assaults of young hooded and masked activists, who burned tires, thrown molotov cocktails on The grids and burned a French flag in an atmosphere made irregular with tear gas. From police source, 3,250 grenades were pulled during the heat to hold the rioters at a distance and prevent them from opening a breach in the barracks.
In Ajaccio, at the call of the Independent Party Independent Party Core in Fronte, minor incidents also took place around the cantonment of Aspresto, at the north entrance of the city. The protesters – nearly 300 – lit a fire in front of the grids of the building, causing the response of the police: tearful grenades and water barrel. The situation was under the control of the forces of the order around 20 hours.
At the origin of the incidents, a video filmed by a mobile phone and become viral throughout the weekend on the island showed CRS in civilian train around the Marseillaise around a barbecue, Friday . In the nationalists heated to white, this episode, the same day of Yvan Colonna’s burial in Cargèse (South Corsica) was lived as a provocation. “A pure colonial hatred”, insisted FEMU in Corsica, the party of the President of the Corsican executive, Gilles Simeoni, without calling to demonstrate. Several union sources, they, ensure that “the CRS sang the national anthem among other songs, as it is very common in this kind of moment of relaxation, without any reference to Yvan Colonna”.
FLNC News Release
For three weeks and the deadly aggression of the Corsican militant, convicted of the assassination of the Prefect Erignac in 1998, in Ajaccio, Corsica crosses a new period of very lively tensions, enamelled with clashes between protesters and forces of the Order in Bastia, Corte or Ajaccio. If the situation remains for the moment circumscribed at street clashes, the authorities like local political staff fear primarily outbreak of clandestine violence. On March 16, the visit of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, on the island to open negotiations on a possible autonomy of Corsica, the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) made public a statement in which He supported youth.
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