NARRATIVE – The trial of the double assassination at Bastia airport, against a backdrop of internal war within the Corsican gang, opens this Monday in Aix-en-Provence. Sixteen defendants are being prosecuted, including a prison guard who admitted to having helped the killers carry out their work.
The most astonishing thing about this typically Corsican vendetta affair is that the essential character is neither a man nor a girl from the maquis, but a pinzuta pure sugar, prison administration official from the continent. An illustration of Nietzsche’s formula according to which “madness is something rare in the individual; it is the rule for groups, parties, peoples, eras”. The former prison guard is one of the 16 defendants tried from Monday, before the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court, for their involvement in the assassination of two members of big island banditry, in December 2017, at the Bastia-Poretta airport.
At the beginning of this affair, which inspired the cinema (“Borgo” by Stéphane Demoustier, released on April 17), was “The Breeze”. A gang – the Sea Breeze according to its full title – of formidable scale, formed at the end of the 1970s in Bastia by a handful of friends as united as the fingers of a hand…
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