Corsican conflict

Corsican conflict
Date4 May 1976 – 25 June 2016 (1976-05-04 – 2016-06-25) (40 years, 1 month and 3 weeks)
9 March 2022 (2022-03-09) – present (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 4 days)[a]
Location
Corsica
Violence occasionally spread to mainland France and Italy
Status Ongoing
Belligerents

France France

Anti-separatist paramilitaries

  • Front d'Action Nouvelle Contre l'Indépendance et l'Autonomie[1]

Criminal groups

Corsica Corsican Separatist Paramilitaries

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
France Valéry Giscard d’Estaing
France François Mitterand
France Jacques Chirac
France Nicolas Sarkozy
France François Hollande
France 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]
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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]

  1. ^ "Pour la première fois depuis 1993, le FLNC revendique un assassinat". Le Monde.fr. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  2. ^ "La conduite de la politique de sécurité menée par l'Etat en Corse". 3 April 2023.
  3. ^ "35. France/Corsica (1967-present)".
  4. ^ Bloom, Deborah (25 June 2014). "Corsica militant group to abandon arms". CNN. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  5. ^ "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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