A main residence belonging to continentals living in Corsica was burned in Penta-di-Casinca (Haute-Corse) on the night of Wednesday 7 to Thursday 8 and nationalist tags were discovered, told AFP the prosecutor of Bastia.
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It is an arson attack on a main residence belonging to continentals who have been living for several years in Corsica and had just bought this house on which tags IFF (I Francesi Fora, the French outside) and GCC (Ghjuventù clandestina corsica, Corsican clandestine youth) were discovered, "said Arnaud Viornery, prosecutor of the Republic of Bastia.
An investigation for degradation by fire has been opened.
Arnaud Viornery, public prosecutor of Bastia
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An investigation for degradation by fire was opened and entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie, "added the magistrate, specifying that the national anti-terrorist prosecutor's office had been "notified". The owners were on holiday outside Corsica at the time of the facts, told AFP a source close to the investigation. Over the past year and a half, dozens of residences, most of them secondary, have been affected by arson or explosive charges, with or without the presence of tags.
At the beginning of February, the GCC announced its creation and claimed 17 actions against second homes, buildings under construction, construction companies and tourist establishments. On March 21, a year after the death of Yvan Colonna, fatally attacked in prison where he was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac, the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) had claimed 17 acts against second homes and criticized the GCC for having assumed "the paternity" of several of its actions.
