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| Belligerents | |||||||
Anti-separatist paramilitaries
Criminal groups |
 National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC)FLNC-Canal Historique (FLNC-CS) (1988-1998)FLNC-Canal Habituel (FLNC-CA) (1988-1997)Resistenza (1989-2003) Fronte Ribellu (1996-1999) FLNC-5 Maghju (FLNC-5M) (1996-1999)Armata Corsa (AC) (1999-2001) FLNC-Unione di i Cumbattenti (FLNC-UC) (1999-present)FLNC-22 Uttrovi (FLNC-22U) (2002-present)Armata di U Populu Corsu (APC) (2004-2006) FLNC-5 Maghju 1976 (FLNC-1976) (2007-present)FLNC-21 Maghju (FLNC-21M) (2021-present)Other small groups | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Valéry Giscard d’Estaing François Mitterand Jacques Chirac Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande Emmanuel Macron |
Léo Battesti Alain Orsoni Jean-Michel Rossi François Santoni Natale Luciani Paul-Felix Benedetti (allegedly) Stephane Ori (allegedly) | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,800+ Police and Gendarmeries,[2] and 1,300 Soldiers (of the FFL, by Calvi) | Unknown, likely thousands of members | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 14 killed | Several arrested | ||||||
| +140 deaths[3] | |||||||
| History of Corsica |
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The Corsican conflict (Corsican: Conflittu Corsu; French: Conflit Corse) is an armed and political conflict on the island of Corsica which began in 1976 between the government of France and Corsican nationalist militant groups, mainly the National Liberation Front of Corsica (Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica, FLNC) and factions of the group. Beginning in the 1970s, the Corsican conflict peaked in the 1980s before Corsican nationalist groups and the French government reached a truce with one of the two main splinters of the FLNC, the FLNC-Union of Combattants (FLNC-Unione di i Cumbattenti, FLNC-UC) in June 2014.[4] In 2016, the other main splinter, the FLNC-22nd of October (FLNC-22 Uttrovi, FLNC-22U) also declared a truce. It is currently ongoing following the 2022 Corsica unrest and the return to arms of the FLNC-UC and FLNC-22U.[5]
- ^ "Pour la première fois depuis 1993, le FLNC revendique un assassinat". Le Monde.fr. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ "La conduite de la politique de sécurité menée par l'Etat en Corse". 3 April 2023.
- ^ "35. France/Corsica (1967-present)".
- ^ Bloom, Deborah (25 June 2014). "Corsica militant group to abandon arms". CNN. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ "Le FLNC rend hommage, met en garde et revendique dans une nouvelle communication". www.corsematin.com (in French). 21 March 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
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