“The criminal thesis is preferred“concerning the fire of two adjoining houses belonging to”continentalin Levie (Corse-du-sud) on the night of Saturday to Sunday, AFP learned from the public prosecutor of Ajaccio Nicolas Septe. The two dwellings,a priori second homesaccording to the prosecution, were unoccupied at the time of the incident and the incident, reported around two o’clock in the morning, did not cause any injuries.
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An investigation for willful degradation by fire was opened by the Ajaccio public prosecutor’s office, entrusted to the research section and the research brigade of the Ajaccio gendarmerie. The National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has been notified of the case. “This file is part of the phenomenon of criminal damage by fire to houses belonging to continentals, without our being able to make a link“, explained Nicolas Septe.
“There are no claims at this stage“, also specified the prosecutor, reporting that”a tag representing a stylized Corsica was written on a wall without our being able to link it to an identified group“. In July, the independence movement Front de liberation nationale Corse (FLNC) claimed responsibility for 16 attacks on two police vehicles, two construction companies and twelve private residences across the island, including the burning of 36 mobile homes in a campsite. of Aleria (Upper Corsica).