![]() Footage shows members saying that they were restarting their campaign to “save the Corsican people from programmed extinction”. Then three years ago in October 2016, the FLNC came to a unilateral decision to end its military campaign in order to allow the Pe a Corsica (for Corsica) party to fulfil its mandate as the leading party in parliament, which it took control of in 2015 and then strengthened its grip on in the 2017 elections.Įarlier this month the FLNC re-emerged, threatening the island’s tourism, property, and business communities. ![]() This period saw thousands of individual acts of terror primarily targeting infrastructure, but also leading to the deaths of nine police officers and the 1998 assassination of Claude Erignac, the top French official on the island. Leo Battesti, former leader of the FLNC, was seen attending the rally – highlighting the ties that exist between Mafia structures on the island and the movement, who are closely linked to incidences of extortion, bribery and armed robbery.īetween 19, the FLNC carried out a 40-year armed campaign against the apparatus of the French state on the island and cities such as Marseille, Nice, and Avignon, in a fight for Corsica’s independence from France. Officials called on political leaders to speak out without ambiguity against mafia-style lobbies and demanded the Macron government “acknowledge this mafia grip and provide the tools to fight it”. Seventy-two hours earlier, Maxime Susini, a 36-year-old farmer political activist, was killed in the south of the island. Days before the protest, property developer Icham Saffour was murdered on a building site – the island’s seventh mafia-related killing in 2019. The rally intended to shed light on both the growing problem of organised crime, as well as the rise of the militant liberation movement, known as the Front Nationale Liberation Corsica (FLNC). ![]() This past September, over 30 local politicians, public figures, and members of the artistic community gathered in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio under the banner of “Maffia no, a vita ie”, a phrase which translates to “No to Mafia, yes to life”. ![]()
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