At the head of the processions, in front of high schools and colleges, sometimes under hoods facing the police, they went to the front line in the demonstrations of support for Yvan Colonna.
These young - even very young - Corsican people do not always have a very clear political discourse, but they have in common that they are Corsican and this identity, which they all evoke, is enough to justify their mobilization.
“As a Corsican, we cannot resign ourselves to injustice
,” explains Dumè, a student in Corsican language and culture (LCC) at the University of Corte.
Coming
from "a nationalist family"
, the young man observes that
"many high school students are already militants, even if it is sometimes only in the friendly or private sphere".
“I have always been a nationalist,
he continues from the height of his 19 years.
I want Corsica to move forward, and for that, we need a political solution.
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