An independence activist from the Core in Fronte party was arrested Tuesday in Bastia in an investigation by the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) into a clandestine press conference, we learned on Wednesday from judicial sources close to the case.
“Our friend and activist Stéphane Ori was arrested by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (Sdat) of the police in Bastia yesterday (Tuesday),” the independence party Core in Fronte said on Wednesday on X.
This arrest, revealed by France 3 Corse, took place as part of a PNAT investigation, a judicial source confirmed to AFP.
The arrested person is suspected of having participated in the clandestine press conference of the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) on May 5, 2021, a source close to the case told AFP.
𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔 𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗔
our friend and activist Stéphane Ori was arrested by the SDAT in Bastia yesterday.
The door to his apartment was broken and his partner and children were sequestered in a room until 3 p.m. during the search.
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— Core in Fronte (@coreinfronte) March 27, 2024
The launch of a new armed group
During this clandestine press conference, a new armed group, called “FLNC Magjhu 21” (May 2021) announced its creation, 45 years after that of the FLNC which announced laying down its arms in 2014.
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Presenting themselves as "activists from all components of the FLNC" then dormant, this 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, in an undetermined location, a hooded person dressed in black surrounded by seven others, also hooded and armed with machine guns and handguns.
Methods to “destabilize” denounce the separatists
“The French state has not abandoned its repressive policy,” said X Core in Fronte, which believes that “these methods contribute to destabilizing current discussions, if not paralyzing them, the objective being for French State for not allowing the stage of true autonomy.”
The party has called for a rally at 6 p.m. in Bastia.
Wednesday afternoon, the Corsican Assembly must consider and vote on an agreement reached in mid-March in Paris between the government and island elected officials on "constitutional writings" providing for "the recognition of a status of autonomy" of the Mediterranean island “within the Republic”.
Another arrest also took place on Tuesday in Haute-Corse, this time as part of a judicial investigation by the anti-terrorism unit of the Paris judicial court, we learned from a judicial source, who refused to give more details.