The creation of a new underground group was announced last Wednesday during an underground press conference, 45 years to the day after that of the Front for the National Liberation of Corsica (FLNC) on May 5, 1976. The latter, baptized " FLNC Maghju 21 ”(May 2021), is already in the sights of the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat), we learned on Monday from the Ajaccio prosecutor.
The judicial police and the anti-terrorism sub-directorate of the national police were involved in a preliminary investigation opened by the Pnat for terrorist association, said a judicial source.
Eight hooded and armed people
The creation of this new underground group was announced after the island's four nationalist parties failed to come to an agreement and are standing separately in the territorial elections in June.
Presenting itself as “militants of all the components of the FLNC” currently dormant, the new armed group announced that it had decided on a “tactical redeployment, pending the initiation by the French State of a real political process of settlement of the Corsican national question ”, indicated, while in an undetermined place, a hooded person dressed in black, surrounded by seven other individuals, with their faces also hidden and armed with machine guns and weapons fist.
Tonight @FTViaStella reveals the creation of a new FLNC which presents itself as FLNC Maghju 21. In line of sight: the French State which "has by no means envisaged a real transfer of sovereignty for Corsica as all the islands benefit from it of the Mediterranean ... »pic.twitter.com/AHbr8yynBI
- jean-christophe galeazzi (@jcgaleazzi) May 5, 2021
A three-page press release was given to France 3 Corse which made it public on its website.
The activists assure that "for the FLNC, the solution is political".
But they denounce the fact that since the laying down of arms announced by the FLNC in June 2014, "the French state has by no means envisaged a real transfer of sovereignty for Corsica", despite the accession to power of the nationalists in 2015.
"Mafia gangrene" in Corsica
While deploring that the union of nationalist parties, in power locally since 2017, has been unable "to create a political balance of power vis-à-vis the State", the group calls on voters to "vote in conscience for the candidate lists. claiming nationalism ”to the territorial.
The group also denounces "a mafia gangrene" in Corsica and the generalization of the sale and consumption of drugs. At the end of October 2020, a clandestine conference was held in Haute-Corse with two armed men claiming to be "FLNC 76" and had already given rise to the opening of an investigation for "terrorist criminal association" by the Pnat.