Nine people were indicted on Saturday, in particular for "terrorist criminal association", in an investigation into shooting targeting a gendarmerie in Corsica in July, according to a judicial source.
The anti-terrorism section of the judicial police and the gendarmerie had proceeded Tuesday morning to twelve arrests in the two departments of Corsica in this investigation which targeted these shots but also their claim.
On Saturday, nine people were presented to a judge and indicted for "criminal association terrorist correctional", "destruction or degradation in a meeting" and for the "transport and acquisition of weapons of category A or B", the everything in relation to a terrorist enterprise.
Three people released without legal action
Three of these people were placed in pretrial detention on Saturday, including the nationalist activist and writer Jean-Pierre Santini, born in 1944, according to the judicial source.
Two have seen the debate over the issue of their possible remand delayed until next week and are being held pending.
Four others were placed under judicial supervision.
Three other people who had been taken into police custody at the end of Tuesday's raid were released without legal action.
Shots claimed by the FLNC
These arrests had been carried out within the framework of a rogatory commission of Parisian anti-terrorism investigating judges relating to several facts: firearms fire perpetrated on the night of July 13 to 14 against the headquarters of the gendarmerie grouping of Haute-Corse in the Montesoro district in Bastia as well as two press conferences on July 14, 2020 and September 27, 2019.
The shots were indeed claimed on July 14 by a commando of four armed and hooded men claiming to be from the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC).
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They had come out of the maquis behind the convent of Saint-Antoine de Casabianca (Haute-Corse), where a Corsican "patriotic" gathering was being held, and one of the members of this armed group had read a text in the Corsican language claiming " shootings ”against the Montesoro gendarmerie in Bastia.
According to the video then shared on social networks, the four men of the FLNC had ended their intervention with a salvo of shots fired into the air after asking the "French government" to "implement a real process of recognition of the Corsican people and decolonization ”.
The anti-terrorism prosecution seized
The anti-terrorism prosecution was seized after this demand and judicial information was then opened and entrusted to anti-terrorism investigating judges.
After four decades marked by more than 4,500 attacks claimed, the main branch of the FLNC had taken the “historic decision” to lay down its arms in 2014, but other branches of the Corsican organization have since claimed violent actions.
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