Corsican terrorism resurges and threatens the French who settle on the island
Corsican terrorism, which had been dormant in recent years, has made a spectacular reappearance, with a highly media-driven staging. At a clandestine press conference, attended only by the local newspaper Corse-Matin, a group of hooded and heavily armed men, under a banner with the initials of the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC), threatened the French from the mainland who settle on the island and called the new autonomy project being discussed in the Paris Parliament a “masquerade.”