The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) announced this Wednesday, December 11, 2024AFP having taken up the investigation into the fire and explosion which damaged a house belonging to Corsican residents in Olmeto (Southern Corsica) on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
The investigation was opened on Sunday to “participation in a correctional terrorist criminal association” et “degradation of the property of others by a means dangerous for people in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, said the Pnat.
“The investigations are ongoing and covered by the secrecy of the investigation”, he pointed out.
Several tags “FLNC” or even “ Corsican language, living language » (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.
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A gas bottle
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 ” Corsican language, living language ».
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.
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