Haute-Corse: an FLNC tagged empty gas cylinder discovered in front of a waste center

A security perimeter was set up and the miners went to the scene and concluded, after examination, that the bomb was empty, a source close to the investigation told AFP. "The gas cylinder is placed on the access road to the site with the acronym FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front, NDLR) painted on it as well as on the wooden gate behind it ", said the Attorney General of the Republic of Bastia, Caroline Tharot. The research section of the Corsica gendarmerie is in charge of investigations and the national counter-terrorism prosecutor's office is "advised " of this discovery, she added.

This landfill of non-hazardous waste in the commune of Giuncaggio has come back today with the decision on October 3 of the administrative court of Bastia to annul an order of November 15, 2016 of the prefect of Haute-Corse. This order refused permission to operate the farm. The executive board of Corsica, chaired by Gilles Simeoni, said after the administrative court decision that he was not in favor of this site and that "has never appeared and has no vocation to be among the sites considered " to store waste in Corsica. On Tuesday, a group named "Tavignanu Vivu" in reference to the lower valley of the Tavignano where the site is located, demonstrated in front of the prefecture of Corsica in Ajaccio to oppose its operation.

Without an incinerator in its territory and with only a single near-operational operational landfill (CET) center, the island has been experiencing a waste crisis for twenty years. On October 1, a group of five announced at a press conference that the FLNC was being reconstituted, leading to the opening of an investigation into the national anti-terrorism prosecutor's office. This small group threatened to watch over "by force if necessary " to the application of measures "to save the Corsican people from a planned disappearance ".