Intervention of an FLNC commando during a rally of independence activists in Corsica
Three hooded and armed men, claiming to belong to the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC), interrupted an independence rally in Corte this Sunday. They took advantage of the opportunity to denounce the rise of the “extreme right” in Europe and reiterate their hostility towards the extreme right, which they consider to be a “gangrene for the Corsican people”.
The Bastia prosecutor, Jean-Philippe Navarre, told AFP that he was studying the possibility of opening an investigation, awaiting details on the comments made and the claimed affiliation of the speakers to the FLNC.
The incident occurred during the “Ghjurnate Internaziunale di Corti”, an annual gathering of Corsican independence activists in which Kanak representatives from New Caledonia also participated. The three individuals spoke after the speech by Petr'Anto Tomasi, spokesperson for the new Corsican independence party Nazione.
One of the men read a four-page text, his voice modified by an audio system, where he spoke of recent political events and the high score of the National Rally (RN) in the last legislative elections. The text expressed the FLNC’s categorical rejection of the “extreme right”.
The text read by the commando underlined that “extreme radical rights” have taken power in Europe or are approaching it, calling them “enemies of the people”. They also criticized the extreme right, whether French or local, under the “Moorish head flag”.
The commando referred to the creation, in March 2024, of the Mossa Palatinu party, a movement presenting itself as autonomist and opposing “Jacobinism, Wokism and Islamism”.
Finally, the speakers recalled that their “political fight” now focuses on the request for Corsica to be included “on the list of non-autonomous territories to be decolonized”.
Alice Leroy
