Antò Simoni, a Corsican nationalist activist, was placed in pre-trial detention on Wednesday in an investigation into the explosive damage to a villa. Simoni and another activist, Nicolas Pinzuti, were arrested on Tuesday January 30 in Bastia by the judicial police and the Anti-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (Sdat) After several days in police custody, the two activists were indicted by a Parisian anti-terrorist investigating judge for terrorist conspiracy, manufacturing an explosive device in relation to a terrorist enterprise.