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Yvan Colonna was a Corsican nationalist who was arrested in 2003 for the 1998 murder of Corsican prefect Claude Érignac. Colonna is a hero among many Corsicans, and has become a symbol of Corsican nationalism. On 2 March 2022, an inmate started beating Colonna in his prison cell, seriously injuring the latter and sending him into a coma.
Corse-Matin is a French-language daily local newspaper published in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. [1] History and profile.
Before the FLNC formed, many armed groups were already leading small-scale insurgencies across Corsica. Many formed in protest of the pied-noirs, who were buying up the only arable land from Corsica while fleeing the Algerian war, and many regionalists were fighting for Corsican representation as a French region (Corsica was part of Provence-Alpes-Côté d’Azur until 1975).
Corsicana Daily Sun, Texas January 19, 2022 at 3:11 PM Judy Gallin's collection of paintings of the "Croatian/Serbian War" is on display through March at the Warehouse Living Arts Center.
Corsican autonomy is the idea and movement supporting the status of an autonomous region for the island of Corsica within the French Republic. Most supporters of greater autonomy are Corsican nationalists. The ruling Femu a Corsica party supports an autonomous status for Corsica.
The Corsicans had within their culture their own supernatural myths and legends. Historically superstitious, the Corsican population had its own beliefs passed down from generation to generation. [35] « L'ochju » is the Corsican version of Evil Eye. To remove «l'ochju» you need a «signatore» (a kind of faith healer) who exorcise the ...
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.
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