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Riots broke out in Bastia after the attack on Yvan Colonna, in prison, by a former jihadist sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998. » Corsican.
The Minister of the Interior responded by paving the way for the island's autonomy.
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It is not France that is mocked by the rioters, but the French central state
”, considers the sociologist of Corsican origin Michel Maffesoli.
Unlike independence, autonomy is not a demand for total sovereignty, but can amount to hyperdecentralization, he argues.
The Corsican elected officials wish to conduct daily affairs and let the State manage what is relative to the domain of the sovereign (army, police, justice).
This status would be similar to that of certain overseas communities (Article 74 of the Constitution), such as the Wallis and Futuna Islands or French Polynesia.
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