Bastia (Upper Corsica)
“Weapons in Corsica are a local specificity.”
From his perch, Arnaud Viornery, public prosecutor of Bastia, launches into a diatribe against this island particularity, on the occasion of a recent trial in which a figure of banditry appears.
It must be said that with 120,000 weapons declared for 350,000 inhabitants, or 340 per 1,000 inhabitants, the rate of possession is more than three times higher than the national average.
Impressive figures explained by the presence of 35,000 hunters and 5,300 sports shooters.
The island can even compete with several American states deemed to be more permissive on this issue.
If it is difficult to estimate the illegal part, the seizures make it possible to have an idea.
In 2021, 791 rifles, revolvers or machine guns were confiscated in Corsica.
What to alert:
“We must abandon any cultural representation of this scourge with the irregular possession of firearms,
explains Arnaud Viornery
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