Corsican nationalist's assassination spotlights criminials' grip on island
- Posted on January 13, 2026
- By Le Monde
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Corsican nationalist's assassination spotlights criminials' grip on island
Alain Orsoni, a former leader of the Movement for Self-Determination on the French island of Corsica, had spent time in exile in Nicaragua. Local police said his shooting death at his mother's funeral resembled those targeting associates of his son, a figure of the island's criminal underworld.
