Four hooded men, dressed in black and armed, claiming to be from the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) claimed on Tuesday " shots against the gendarmerie of Montesoro " in Bastia (Haute-Corse), where a bullet " impact " was noted .
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After leaving the maquis behind the convent of Saint Antoine de Casabianca (Haute-Corse), where a Corsican " patriotic " gathering was taking place , in the middle of the afternoon, one of the members of this armed group read a text in the language Corsican claiming " shots against the gendarmerie of Montesoro in Bastia in the night from Monday to Tuesday ".
A bullet impact was discovered during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday in the window of a staff office, on the top floor of the barracks, impact that could date from the night of July 13 to 14 when gendarmes had heard " something, " a source familiar with the investigation told AFP. A team of criminal identification technicians from the gendarmerie was sent to the site. In addition, an investigation was opened and entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie, said this source.
The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office seized
The national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office was also seized, Bastia's prosecutor Caroline Tharot told AFP on Wednesday, adding that she did not wish to " make any other statement ". In a video shared on social networks, the images show the four men of the FLNC ending their intervention with a salvo of shots fired in the air after asking the " French government " to " implement a real recognition process of the Corsican people and of decolonization ”.
After four decades marked by more than 4,500 claimed attacks, the main branch of the FLNC had taken the " historic decision " to lay down its arms in 2014, but since then other branches of the Corsican organization have claimed violent actions. In October 2019, a small group of men dressed in black clothing had announced the " reconstitution " of the FLNC, during a clandestine press conference.
