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A gas bottle was found Thursday on the blackened steps, by what appears to have been a fire, of the town hall of Afa, a village on the outskirts of Ajaccio, and the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office seized", according
to the prosecutor of Ajaccio.
"
A GCC tag [
Ghjuventù Clandestina Corsa, Corsican clandestine organization for the independence of the island
], was discovered on the facade of the building
", confirmed to AFP the prosecutor of Ajaccio, Nicolas Septe.
Condemnation and weariness
Gendarmes and deminers went to the scene in the morning.
A "
feeling of sadness
" prevailed for the mayor of the town, Pascal Miniconi.
His first deputy, nationalist, Paul Miniconi, strongly condemned the chosen target: "
The town hall is everyone's tool
".
Attacks on second homes have multiplied in Corsica in recent months.
Tuesday, the first anniversary of the death of Yvan Colonna, who died as a result of his attack in prison where he was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998 in Ajaccio, the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), clandestine independence movement, claimed responsibility for 17 attacks, in a press release, and once again denounced the policy of the State on the island.
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