The former nationalist leader, arrested on Monday, is suspected of “criminal association with a view to preparing terrorist acts”. Weapons were found during searches.
by Yves Bordenave
This is an episode that should not arrange the state of relations between the government and part of the Corsican nationalist movement. Arrested on Monday December 5 in Corsica with six other people, including one of his sons and one of his grandsons, the former independence leader Charles Pieri as well as the other accused, were, according to a source Close to the investigation, being presented, Friday, December 9, to an anti -terrorist judge to be indicted.
At the end of four days of police custody in the premises of the anti-terrorist sub-directorate of the judicial police in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine), the old nationalist chief, aged 72, suspected To have been in the 1990s and 2000 one of the main leaders of the Corsica National Liberation Front (FLNC) was prosecuted for “criminal association with a view to preparing terrorist acts” and weapons detention. During searches carried out on Monday at his home and those of his relatives, the police discovered two automatic pistols, several hunting weapons as well as chargers and ammunition.
Charles Pieri, who, until recent months, was still a member of the executive leadership of the independence party Corsica Libera, is a multi -wrist. Since the early 1980s, there are no longer his stays in prison and convictions, both for his commitments related to nationalism and for his common law criminal activities. Her last conviction to six months in prison – a penalty that was arranged and did not earn her detention – dates back to October 2021. She aims for crimes of “concealment of breach of trust”. Charles Pieri had cars on a “graceful” basis with Filippi Auto, franchisee Hertz, who had “omitted” to charge him with a vehicle from May 2017 to May 2019.
Before that, and to speak only of the last twenty years, “Carlu” – as his friends call him – had been sentenced, in 2005, by the Paris Court of Appeal to eight years of imprisonment For “abuse of corporate goods”, “funds”, “terrorist financing” and “criminal association in relation to a terrorist enterprise”. For the past twenty years, the “Pieri System” has been at the heart of incestuous relationships between thugs and armed nationalists.
“blind repression”
In a March report, which draws up the inventory of the 25 main “criminal teams in Corsica”, the Directorate of the National Police devotes a chapter to him. “Charles Pieri has been a historical figure of the Corsican nationalist movement since the early 1980s,” she said. She attributes ties to him with the great island banditry, particularly with the sea breeze and one of his sponsors, Francis Mariani, died in a criminal explosion in January 2009, and in the company of which Charles Pieri had escaped from prison de Borgo (Haute-Corse), in 1984.
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