The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed on Friday the provisional detention of nationalist activist and writer Jean-Pierre Santini, 76, imprisoned since October 10 as part of an investigation for shots targeting a gendarmerie in Corsica.
He challenged his pre-trial detention before the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal.
He was indicted with eight other people on October 10 in particular for "terrorist criminal association" for firing a firearm targeting the headquarters of the Haute-Corse gendarmerie group in the Montesoro district of Bastia, in the night of July 13th to 14th.
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An armed commando of the FLNC claims shots against a gendarmerie
The shooting having been claimed the next day by a commando of four armed and hooded men claiming to be from the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), the anti-terrorism pole of Paris had seized the investigation.
The judicial information, opened for "criminal association of criminal terrorist correctional", "destruction or degradation in assembly" and "transport and acquisition of category A or B weapons", all in connection with a terrorist enterprise, also concerns two conferences press releases held on July 14, 2020 and September 27, 2019.
On hunger strike
Besides the writer, four suspects were remanded in custody and four others under judicial supervision.
In Corsica, the preventive detention of Jean-Pierre Santini, on hunger strike, aroused turmoil within the Corsican nationalist movement.
The presidents of the executive council and of the Corsican Assembly, Gilles Simeoni and Jean-Guy Talamoni, questioned the Keeper of the Seals last Sunday on the "very worrying" situation and the "fragile health" of the detainee.
Wednesday evening, a hundred students had gathered in front of the sub-prefecture of Corte to request release, according to France Bleu Haute-Corse.
