2019/12/29

Patriotti Press Conference announces the internationalization of French repression in Brussels

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

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2019/12/20

Two holiday homes of a French PM close and Paris FC president arsoned in Corsica

Pierre Ferracci is a close aide of the French PM. He also is president of the Paris Football Club. His two holiday homes are in Rondinar. Severeal protests since 2017 have called to be destroyed as they are built in a protected area. A bomb exploded on Friday December 20th and another one could not explode. On December 22th the FLNC-22 October assumed the actions.

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2019/12/17

The oldest Corsican political prisoner has been freed


Charles Santoni, sentenced in 1999 to 28 years in prison for the murder of a Raid police officer in 1996 in Aiacciu, has been free on Tuesday. The man served his sentence "without a day's permission, (..) bracelet, semi, or conditional. Without political concession from the state, without amnesty, "said the French state.

Charles Santoni should be released in July 2019, after having served his sentence for murder, but his detention was lengthened by a new sentence to six months in prison, in October 2017, by the Bastia Court of Appeal for death threats on a counselor from the penitentiary service of integration and probation of the penitentiary center of Borgo (Haute-Corse).


Charles Santoni had been sentenced on November 25, 1999 by the Paris Special Assize Court to 28 years' imprisonment for the murder of a Raid police officer and two attempted murders of Raid police officers, on April 16, 1996 in Aiacciu. He had opened fire with his friend Jean-Luc Orsoni, who died in the shooting, on an unmarked police car whose occupants they allegedly took as killers, in the midst of conflict between the movements of the ex-FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front).

He had been, on March 17, 2011, the first Corsican detainee incarcerated on the continent to be transferred to Borgo prison, following the commitments of the Minister of Justice, Michel Mercier, in favor of bringing together island prisoners and their relatives. .

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2019/12/15

Femu a Corsica 1st General Assembly






The party held its first General Assembly or cunsulta generale in Corti on December 15th. It began with a tribute to Edmond Simeoni who died on December 14th a year ago. This first year of the party was that of structuring, legal and financial procedures, the creation of a website ... The "project" commission built a social project which will have to be mature in 2021. The period 2015-2021 was a obstacle course: a heavy legacy, a major election a year, the merger of communities and a defiant state on almost all issues. 2020-2021 must be a period of liberation of energies and municipal elections are an essential issue.", said Jean-Félix Acquaviva.

Gilles Simeoni, Corsica's President, son of Edmond and Femu a Corsica leader, closed the meeting where the centrist party did a compromise to fight for the next local and regional elections.

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2019/12/11

Eleven Corsican activists detained by the French police and transferred to Paris

The arrests took place yesterday and Aiutu Paisanu held a rally in front of the the police station of Bastia where they were arrested. Today they have been transferred to Paris. Femu in Corsica has  strongly denounced "the arrest of 11 young Corsican people on the part of hooded anti-terrorist policies, strongly armed and using deliberately violent and traumatic methods." These behaviors continue the nationalist party in the government, "refer Corsica to the most painful hours of its contemporary history."

"The state has a heavy responsibility in the current situation, refusing to take into account the majority aspiration expressed by universal suffrage, closing the door to any political solution, reactive the logic of the conflict while Corsica had created the conditions for appearing and dialogue" .


On March 10 this year, residential and real estate homes were attacked in Piana, Taglio-Isolaccio, Patrimoni i Ville Di Pietrabugno. The procedure was with gas bottles and shots.
There were also two explosive charges on April 1 in front of the public finance centers of Toga and the center of Bastia.
No organization took the actions.
On the other hand, last October, a group of five hooded men announced the reactivation of the FLNC (Front of National Liberation of Corsica).
Since then there has been no attack.

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2019/11/10

Patriotti announces the creation of Aiutu Patriotticu to raise funds for teh Corsican political prisoners

The members of the group Patriotti held a press conference yesterday in Mezzavia to formalize the Aiutu Patriotticu structure. The goal is to raise funds through various events such as concerts or parties. "Today, we knock on the door of civil society and we will organize a lot of events in order to reap the money, that's why singers, and those who want it, are welcome," adds the spokesperson of the collective. "We are also going to sell items in our image on our website.The goal is to help every month the prisoners, who are forced to pay the French state sums that are high." Almost 8,000 euros needed each month

There are families who find it difficult to find work and who are now facing great difficulties. "But for all that, they have to leave one hundred, two hundred euros or more for some per month, and we will need between 7,000 and 8,000 euros a month to help them, so the goal is to pay this that is, in their place, while waiting for a political solution to our problem, which can only be amnesty. "

In addition to financial support, Aiutu Patriotticu also aims to offer former detainees assistance that responds to daily difficulties, by providing support on request and in a strictly confidential context.


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