A house under construction was destroyed in Galeria, Haute-Corse, on the night of Thursday to Friday, Bastia prosecutor Arnaud Viornery told AFP, adding that the explosion was caused by two bottles of gas.
“GTY (Editor’s note: Gloria à tè Yvan) and FLNC (Editor’s note: Corsican National Liberation Front) tags were found on the house belonging to people who reside on the Continent”, added the magistrate, confirming initial information from the regional daily “Corse Matin”.
The investigation for “degradation of property by dangerous means” was entrusted to the research section of the Corsican gendarmerie and the national anti-terrorist prosecution (PNAT) was notified, explained the magistrate.
The GTY tag refers to Yvan Colonna, the Corsican independence activist who died on March 21, 2022 from his injuries after being attacked by a fellow prisoner at the central house in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), where he was serving a sentence. life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998 in Ajaccio.
More than a dozen second homes have been damaged since the beginning of the year. In total, several dozen have been affected over the past year by arson or explosive charges, with or without the presence of tags.
On July 11, 2022, the FLNC had claimed 16 acts of this type against campsites, beach restaurants, second homes, construction companies and construction machinery. The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office had taken up all of these facts.