The national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office (Pnat) announced to AFP this Wednesday that it had taken up the investigation into the fire and explosion which damaged a house belonging to Corsican residents in Olmeto (Southern Corsica). during the night from Saturday to Sunday.
The investigation was opened on Sunday for “participation in a correctional terrorist criminal association” and “degrading the property of others by a means dangerous for people in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, specified the Pnat.
“Investigations are ongoing and covered by investigative secrecy.“, he stressed.
Several tags “FLNC” or even “lingua corsa, lingua viva” (Corsican language, living language, Editor's note) were noted on the walls of the house, Ajaccio prosecutor Nicolas Septe said on Sunday, specifying that no one had been injured.
The first findings allowed the deminers to find a gas bottle near the house, “which could explain the phenomenon of explosion of the house by saturation of the air in the house during the fire“, he added.
The owners of the house are “unknown to the police. It would be a Corsican couple who have always lived there.”according to Nicolas Septe.
This event comes at a time when several demonstrations and blocking movements punctuated by incidents with the police have recently taken place in Corsica.
Several nationalist student unions are protesting against the decision to ban Corsican in the island's Assembly under the slogan “lingua corsa, lingua viva”.
In mid-November, the Marseille Administrative Court of Appeal banned the use of Corsican in debates in the Corsican Assembly because it was contrary to the Constitution, to the great dismay of Corsican autonomist elected officials who intend to appeal to the Corsican Council. 'State.
