Since Saturday, corsican nationalist environments are indignant on the social networks of a video allegedly shot in Furiani’s CRS cantonment on the day of funerals where one hears a Marseillaise.
Le Monde with AFP
More than 500 people demonstrated, Sunday, March 27, in an atmosphere tense in front of a CRS barracks near Bastia at the call of independence organizations that accuse some CRS from singing the Marseillaise on the day of the funeral of the activist Yvan colonna.
This call to demonstrate in front of the Furiani barracks, south of Bastia, was launched by the independence movements Core in Fronte, Corsica Libera (minority at the Assembly of Corsica) and the nationalist student unions, which are the main Engines of the mobilization after the death of Yvan Colonna, assaulted in prison while he served a sentence for perpetuity for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac.
Shortly after the start of the gathering at the beginning of the evening, a few dozen young people shook the cantonment grilles, lighting a fire, causing tear gas fire from the CRS, found a correspondent from the France Agency France -Presse (AFP).
Then, about fifty hooded protesters thrown stones, smoke and molotov cocktails to the police.
A pancart in Corsica “Francesi di Merda” (French of shit) was also hung, according to a reporter of AFPTV.
“Colonial hatred”
Since Saturday, the nationalist environments are indignant on the social networks of a video allegedly turned on the Furiani CRS cantonment on the day of the funeral where one hears a Marseillaise without distinguishing the people present. MEP CORSE Jean-Félix Aquaviva (Group Freedoms and Territories) sees it for example on Twitter ” pure hatred “and request” immediately accounts to the government “.
For the FEMU Special Corsica Party of the President of the Executive Board of Corsica Gilles Simeoni, who did not call to protest, it is a “pure colonial hatred”.
Contact by AFP, the Police Information and Communication Service (SICOP) did not wish to make “communication on this video”.
According to a police union source, “this company was resting and they ate outdoors because the weather lent itself. As usual, they have sings with many songs including the Marseillaise, but unrelated to The funeral of Yvan Colonna “.
Another trade union source has indicated: “The songs are real but no connotation on anything”, another local source that has stated that no word against Yvan Colonna has been heard.