A 48-year-old man, already condemned by justice for his participation in the "FLNC of anonymous", was killed by firearm Monday in San Nicolao, in Haute-Corse, we learned from corroborating sources.
This man was already dead on arrival on the spot shortly before 3:00 p.m. of the emergency services and the gendarmes, indicate these sources, who specified that the gendarmerie had received a call from a local resident reporting seven shots.
"The man born in 1972 was unfavorably known to the police and gendarmerie services as well as to the judiciary since he had been convicted for acts related to nationalism", said the Bastia prosecutor Arnaud Viornery in in the afternoon as he went there.
Killed in his garden
The victim was identified as Stéphane Leca, killed at his home, said the prosecutor in a press release released in the evening.
He was killed in his garden and was expected by one or more shooters hidden behind the dividing hedge, said a source close to the investigation.
The regional direction of the judicial police and the research section of the gendarmerie were jointly seized of this procedure, opened under the qualification of assassination, added the prosecutor.
Stéphane Leca was sentenced to seven years in prison by the Special Assize Court of Paris in May 2007 along with 13 other alleged members of the "FLNC of anonymous".
Sentences of 3 to 12 years of criminal imprisonment were pronounced.
The “Anonymous FLNC”, which officially appeared at the end of October 2001 and which was initially identified as “the unnamed group”, claimed 21 attacks committed in Corsica between July 2001 and December 2002, some of which were among the most destructive of the time in the region. 'Isle.
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Dismantled during several waves of arrests in December 2002, February and April 2003, the movement notably claimed responsibility for two terrorist actions which had targeted, one year apart, the CRS barracks in Furiani, almost entirely destroyed by five explosions on July 18, 2002. Another attack on the Borgo mobile gendarmes barracks on July 23, 2001 left 14 lightly injured, 12 soldiers and two civilian employees of the barracks.