Frontu di Liberazione Naziunalista Corsu
The Frontu di Liberazione Naziunale Corsu ( FLNC ; French Front de libération nationale corse , "Corsican National Liberation Front") is a Corsican liberation movement that is now underground . It was founded on May 5, 1976 in the historic monastery of Saint-Antoine de la Casabianca .
It was preceded on August 21, 1975 by the so-called drama of Aléria . Edmond Simeoni , the founder of the ARC ( Action pour la Renaissance de la Corse - "Action for the rebirth of Corsica") occupied the winery of the French winemaker Henri Depeille with a group of armed men (since then the incident has also been officially known as the "Depeille case") who was involved in various scandals. There was a skirmish with the heavily armed forces, who had come in several hundreds. Two police officers were killed and two squatters seriously injured (see also the article on viticulture in Corsica ). Edmond Simeoni was sentenced to five years in prison for his role and his ARC resistance movement was banned.
The FLNC declared that it only wanted to expropriate the possessions of the so-called pieds-noirs , i.e. the French Algeria who, with the support of the central government in Paris, received money and land in Corsica after the Algerian war , and who, in the opinion of the FLNC, operated successfully there to the detriment of the island's population. The vintner Depeille also belonged to this population group. That is why she has repeatedly confessed to the numerous explosive attacks on holiday complexes since then.
Official announcements by the FLNC, which has been operating underground since the "Depeille case", have appeared in U Ribombu since then .
On June 25, 2014, the organization announced that it would lay down its arms.
On July 28, 2016, the splinter group of the Corsican National Liberation Front of October 22, declared to the terrorist organization Islamic State that from now on every attack against Corsica would be mercilessly avenged. She called on the Corsican Muslims to take a clear stand against radical Islam and to inform the group about young people who are suspected of being radicalized.
literature
- Monika Siegfried-Hagenow : Corsica - A travel book. VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-87975-551-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official founding history of the FLNC ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Date of foundation with location information
- ↑ Corsican independence drama from Aléria
- ↑ Cold monster. In: Der Spiegel. 36/1975. (The pieds-noirs in Corsica)
- ↑ Objectives of the FLNC ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The FLNC in the newspaper "U Ribombu"
- ↑ Corse: the FLNC annonce qu'il dépose les armes in: Le Monde
- ↑ Stefan Simons: France: Corsican separatists threaten the IS . Der Spiegel, July 28, 2016
