Corsican Separatist Leader Killed by a Sniper Shot During His Mother’s Funeral

 

Alain Orsoni – Wiki Commons

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.”

Macron tried to deal with the Corsican issue. 

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’.