The Ghjuventu illegitina Corsa (GCC) – “Clandestine Corsican youth”, in French – said on Tuesday, February 7, in a statement, wanting to take over the fight of the FLNC “in order to make the French state and its contempt “.
by Yves Bordenave (with Paul Ortoli in Ajaccio)
This is not the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), but it looks like it. Same semantics, same demands and same forms of actions. For almost a year, GCC was only a mysterious acronym, a signature, painted in the bomb on walls and facades in Corsica. Tuesday, February 7, Ghjuvenu Clandestina Corsa (GCC) – “Clandestine Corse” in French – officially declared their birth certificate. Like his big brother born on May 5, 1976, the declaration was made by press. Corsica-Matin, the island daily, received an unauthenticized statement from this new group on Tuesday, which does not hide anything from its parentage and intentions.
“We are walking in the footsteps of the FLNC, but, today, it seems to detach itself from the struggle, then it is to us, the Corsican youth, to take it back in order to make the French state and To his contempt, “write his authors, who arise” in armed wing of a revolutionary movement “. From the outset, the group, which is still far from having the structural organization of its elder, claims seventeen attacks committed mainly in Corsica-du-Sud against residences, a construction machine and a campsite between July 4 2022 and January 27.
Fourteen of these acts perpetrated after the demonstrations enamelled with violence following the deadly aggression against Yvan Colonna in his Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), on March 2, 2022, are the subject of investigations carried out By the national anti -terrorist prosecution, which seized it on February 3. This group, of which, according to several sources, the most active nucleus would come from Ajaccio, notably asks “the liberation of Charles Pieri”, one of the ex-leaders of the FLNC in pre-trial detention in Fleury-Mérogis (Essonne) since December 2022, “The truth about the assassination of Yvan Colonna and the rapprochement of political prisoners”. He also claims “the establishment within a period of three years, compulsory Corsica lessons and, at least, a bilingual class by school”, from the class of CP.
Risks of ‘persistent conflagration
For the time being, this group weighs little on the island political situation. Nevertheless, its activism and this announcement are taken seriously by the police and justice services. Solicited by MO12345lemonde, Jean-Jacques Fagni, the Attorney General at the Bastia Court of Appeal, refuses to all dramatization. “Worried? No. Worried? Yes, because we are on a logic of appeasement and this movement wants to weaken this process,” he noted. According to him, this group does not present the characteristics of a clandestine organization “capable of preparing sophisticated attacks”. The magistrate believes that he is dealing with activists, but not for “soldiers” prepared for large -scale attacks, as Corsica knew, during “blue nights” who rocked the island between 1976 and the middle of the years 1990.