Jean-Guy Talamoni: “Paris is conducting an anesthesia process in Corsica”

DFor three decades, he has been the figurehead of the Corsican independence movement. Withdrawn from the political scene since his ousting by the autonomists in the last territorial elections, Jean-Guy Talamoni nevertheless remains an attentive observer of the open process between the nationalists and the State around a statute of autonomy. Last spring, after five years of tumultuous relations with the Corsican executive, the government resolved to include this institutional project on the agenda of the five-year term, in response to pressure from the street after the deadly attack on the prison of Arles by Yvan Colonna, condemned for the assassination of the prefect Érignac in 1998.

A process described as “historic” by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, charged by the Élysée with leading these…