It is a taboo that Emmanuel Macron has decided to break.
Faced with an outbreak of violence in Corsica in the middle of the presidential campaign, since the brutal attack on Yvan Colonna by a fellow jihadist prisoner on March 2, the head of state has resolved to pave the way for a historic claim by nationalists. moderate: island autonomy.
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Its Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, begins a two-day visit to Ajaccio on Wednesday to examine this track with elected officials and try to restore order, after the demonstration which degenerated into riots on Sunday in Bastia.
Gérald Darmanin announced it in an interview to be published this Wednesday, in
Corse-Matin
: “
We are ready to go as far as autonomy.
There, the word is said.
Afterwards the question is to know what this autonomy is.
We need to discuss it.
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The contours of this scenario remain to be clarified, but if it were to succeed, the State would only exercise its powers in the sovereign areas - police, justice, army.
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