The Patriotti collective anounced in a press conference in Bastia yesterday morning a new step in its fight. It will travel to Brussels on January 2. After having met on December 10 representatives of the parliamentary group "Territories and freedom" in the National Assembly, the Patritotti collective intends today to internationalize its approach and will travel to Brussels on January 21 with the MEP François Alfonsi.
"Today we intend to go beyond the only French framework," said Félix Benedetti, member of the collective. "With a view to internationalization, we intend to involve all the training and people attentive to our demands at European level. We are also looking beyond the European framework ”.
"We found attentive ears like those of Madame Pinel, who was not so long ago in government, who were surprised by the conditions of the political prisoners and who decided to seize the Keeper of the Seals. Our main objective was to make them aware of the situation of former Corsican political prisoners, with specific files, such as fines, FIJAIT *, DNA and FINIADA **. On a more global aspect we seek to challenge all those who say they are attached to the principles of individual and collective freedoms, on the daily social, administrative, legal and professional conditions that we undergo. By stimulating these exchanges, by multiplying them, we intend, from specific files, to demonstrate the contradictions of the system and encourage the emergence of spaces for concertation. This concern for exchange and dialogue will only find a better climax with real political negotiations between the French State on the one hand, and all the parties concerned by this principle of political evolution on the other hand, in order to get out, definitely, antagonistic relationships between France and Corsica ”.
"There are several dozen people concerned," says Félix Benedetti, "what is dangerous is the disparity with FIJAIT. Some are registered even when the law had not been voted, others have not been since the adoption of this one. He has many different cases and we want to create a division within us. ”
On January 29, Stéphane Tomasini, Félix Benedetti and Jean-Marc Dominici will appear on appeal, demanding that they unsubscribe from the FIJAIT, obliging them to give their address, prevent any travel abroad and report regularly to the authorities. "It is a fair and noble fight. This registration which obliges us is for us an obstacle to individual and collective freedom ”adds Félix Benedetti.
The collective also returned to the recent arrests of young activists. "Paradoxically, it is in a context marked by the seal of dialogue that a new police and military roundup in Corsica occurs, targeting particularly our youth" underline J.-M. Dominici, "This roundup de facto invalidates two conditions: the prospect of exchanges and evolution with a French government blind to democratic expression and deaf to the voice of global political appeasement, and a so-called peace process emptied of all content which leaves room for the reality of a normalization of our society in which the assassination still takes place ”.
An action that goes wrong therefore on the side of the collective. "It undermines the irresponsible choice of those who have confused speed and precipitation, the traditional political class" adds Olivier Sauli. "However, it must not call into question the offers and prospects of a negotiated political solution and real peace."
And Jean-Marc Dominici concludes: “We call on the National Movement to collective and strategic start. The democracy which must be exercised, which must be respected cannot be condemned, by the mere act of the French government, to languish, petrified, on the seats of a Community which must inevitably progress and transform itself ".
* Automated Judicial File of Terrorist Offenders
** National File of Prohibited Persons in the Acquisition and Possession of Arms
