A Corsican ordeal, and a controversy which will bring to mind other similar stories elsewhere in France. While an administrator launched an appeal before the administrative court of Bastia to remove, in the name of secularism, the cross installed in November 2022 by the mayor of Quasquara, Paul-Antoine Bertolozzi, in Corsica-du-Sud, a Hundreds of people gathered this Sunday to protest against this action before the administrative justice system.
The mobilization was launched at the call of the student union
“
Ghjuventù Indipendentista”, which explains on its X account:
“We were present with around a hundred people to defend our culture! Colonization will never prevent us from practicing it.”
The disputes between the mayor and the complainant having been known for a long time in the town,
Corse Matin
evokes a “story of Clochemerle”.
Regarding secularism, members of the
Ghjuventù Indipendentista
wanted to recall the symbolic importance of crosses in the villages:
“removing a Catholic cross is erasing a symbol deeply rooted in our history. We will ensure that no recourse is adopted and that if it were to be adopted, we will be able to mobilize accordingly,”
union members explain to
Corse Matin
.
Among the people who came to support the ordeal at the entrance to the village, was more surprisingly a group of bikers, the Semper Immota (“Always Unshakeable”), who affirmed: “
Our motivation is neither political nor religious. We are here to defend the Christian culture that is part of us.”