Since the aggression of Yvan Colonna on March 2, eight second home residences were targeted on the island.
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Is the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) is being reborn from its ashes? It is a hypothesis that domestic security services do not exclude on the island after a dozen actions against villas and a camping since the January 1 . An escalation that continued after the deadly aggression, in detention, March 2, from Yvan Colonna, 61, convicted for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac but today erected in the rank of “martyr of the Corsican case “By nationalists. Corsica Street, overflowing with the anger of young militants changed to riots experienced, intermittently, a month of urban violence during which between 160 and 170 policemen were injured, counts the Union Police Unit SGP-FO.
The illegal of the FLNC who had intervened during the June 2021 territorial election campaign, they announce their return, after having declared the 1 September 2021. They would resume “the paths of the fighter night” if “the policy of contempt of the state continued”. On March 16, they had again said to support “Corsican youth in struggle”. With this time again, a threat: “And quickly, the fighting of today’s street will be those of the Maquis of the Night of tomorrow.”
For the time being, none of the fires perpetrated against dwellings has been claimed by the group, nor the national anti-terrorist floor has seized these cases, which are not legally considered attacks. Between March 2 and April 14, eight second home residences were targeted. Criminal acts accompanied by inscriptions such as “IFF” (acronym for I Francesi Fora, “French outside”), or “Per Yvan” (for Yvan). The 1 September, the FLNC had claimed the fire of two bungalows in Ajaccio, in the protected site of Capo di Feno.
“change of procedure”
On April 13, that of a house located in Pianottoli-Caldarello, in the extreme south, sparked a wave of indignation. Its walls were signed “Youth Action for the Renaissance of Corsica”. The owner of the small villa, an octogenary of Corsican origin residing in Switzerland, moved into the media, explaining, in tears, his “misunderstanding”.
Seized for these fires, local parquets play prudence. “It’s too early to draw consequences, especially since we are still in a political sequence,” Nicolas Septte, the Ajaccio Prosecutor, who admits to “not yet a lot of recoil”. For his Bastiais counterpart, Arnaud Viornerry, talk about a return of the attacks, it’s “drawing plans on the comet”.
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