The tension rose a notch this Sunday in Corsica.
More than 500 people demonstrated in a tense atmosphere in front of a CRS barracks near Bastia at the call of independence organizations which accuse some CRS of having sung the Marseillaise on the day of the funeral of activist Yvan Colonna, according to journalists from the AFP.
This call to demonstrate in front of the Furiani barracks, south of Bastia, was launched by the independence movements Core in Fronte, Corsica Libera (a minority in the Assembly of Corsica) and nationalist student unions, which are the main drivers of the mobilization intervened after the death of Yvan Colonna, assaulted in prison while he was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.
"Francesi di merda"
Shortly after the start of the rally in the early evening, a few dozen young people shook the gates of the cantonment, lighting a fire, provoking tear gas from the CRS, noted an AFP correspondent.
A sign in Corsican "Francesi di merda" (French shit) was also hung, according to an AFPTV journalist.
Tensions in progress in front of the CRS cantonment of Furiani in #Corsica.
Hundreds of demonstrators protest against the police.
They reproach some of them for having sung the Marseillaise on Friday, when the funeral of Yvan Colonna was held.
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Then, around fifty hooded demonstrators threw stones, smoke bombs and Molotov cocktails at the police.
Since Saturday, nationalist circles have been indignant on social networks at a video allegedly shot within the CRS cantonment of Furiani on the day of the funeral where a Marseillaise is heard without distinguishing those present.
The Corsican deputy Jean-Félix Aquaviva (Liberties and territories group) sees it for example on Twitter as "pure hatred" and asks "immediately to account to the government".
For the autonomist party Femu a Corsica of the president of the executive council of Corsica Gilles Simeoni, who however did not call to demonstrate, it is about "colonial hatred in the pure state".
“ordinary” songs
Contacted by AFP, the police information and communication service (Sicop) did not wish to make “communication on this video”.
According to a police union source interviewed by AFP, “this company was on rest and they ate outside because the weather was right.
As usual, they sang many songs including La Marseillaise, but unrelated to Yvan Colonna's funeral.
Another union source said: "The songs are real but no connotation of anything", another local source said that no words against Yvan Colonna were heard.
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