This fire comes as the independence activist Yvan Colonna is still between life and death, after his violent attack in the prison of Arles.
An unoccupied apartment was set on fire on the night of Sunday to Monday March 7 in Linguizzetta (Haute-Corse) without causing injuries and tags “with a nationalist connotationand anti-French were discovered nearby, the Bastia prosecutor told AFP.
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Located at a place called Marine di Bravone, by the sea in Linguizzetta, on the east coast of Corsica, the apartment which had just beendelivered but was unoccupied» is located in a residence whose owners are «mostly continentalsand was completely destroyed, Bastia public prosecutor Arnaud Viornery told AFP. “Tags with a nationalist connotation were discovered near the apartment, including IFF(I Francesi Fora, Les Français Dehors), said the prosecutor, adding that a vehicle was also set on fire.
This fire comes a few days after the attempted assassination of independence activist Yvan Colonna at his prison in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône). Sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, he was violently attacked by a fellow prisoner on Wednesday. Since then, he has been between life and death, treated in a Marseille hospital. His attacker, Franck Elong Abe, 35, was indicted on Sunday for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and remanded in custody.
The “caution is in order»
An investigation was opened for destruction by dangerous means and entrusted to the research section of the gendarmerie, added the prosecutor. The “caution is in order“because there is a”context of poor workmanship with conflictsin the building that was being completed and the tags can be “an opportunistic motiveto hide other causes of the fire, two sources close to the investigation told AFP.