Live by violence, die by violence.
In another brutal display of political violence, the Corsican separatist leader Alain Orsoni was shot dead with a suspected sniper shot during his mother’s funeral.
The incident took place yesterday (12) in Vero, near Ajaccio, the capital of the Mediterranean French island.
Reuters reported:
“’He was hit by a long-range shot’, prosecutor Nicolas Septe, told Reuters. Local police confirmed the assassination.
Orsoni, 71, led a separatist movement called the Corsican Movement for Self-Determination, which French police considered to be the legal front for the armed group, the Corsican National Liberation Front-Traditional Wing.
Authorities linked the Corsican National Liberation Front-Traditional Wing to a series of attacks on the island in the 1990s, some of which the group claimed.”
France 24 reported:
“’He was hit by a long-range shot’, prosecutor Nicolas Septe said. Local police confirmed the assassination.
‘It was a moment of sorrow and grief. Suddenly we heard a gunshot, and Alain collapsed, dead’, Father Roger Polge, who officiated at the funeral service, told France 3 Corse ViaStella channel. ‘What is happening in our home?’”
The local prosecutor opened an investigation into ‘murder by an organized gang’.
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