After the very strong mobilization, a week ago in Corte, the nationalist family as a whole, led by the student unions, are marching this Sunday in Bastia. Several thousand people mobilized. The rain may have dampened the enthusiasm of some.
The demonstrators met at 3 p.m. in front of the Bastia courthouse before starting the descent of Boulevard Paoli behind a single banner which reads “statu inglese assassinu”.
Whole neighborhoods cordoned off
On the side of the security services, we obviously fear that things will degenerate in the afternoon as had been the case last week in Corte, and throughout the various gatherings organized in recent days in Ajaccio, Bastia, Calvi , Porto-Vecchio.
All neighboring districts of the Haute-Corse prefecture have been banned from traffic and parking. The prefectural compound is barricaded behind a riot wall.
The fear of overflows is on everyone’s mind. And the discovery of 300 molotov cocktails in the parking lot of the station, on the outskirts of the prefecture of Haute-Corse raises fears of the worst.