Zoé Pallier (special correspondent to Furiani), edited by Solène Leroux 8:02 p.m., May 5, 2022, modified at 8:06 p.m., May 5, 2022

Thirty years ago, the Furiani disaster killed 19 people.

Thursday afternoon, a rally was organized in front of the stele in tribute to the victims.

Hundreds of residents, but also victims, were gathered to share this moment of emotion, in the rain.

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Thursday afternoon in Furiani in Corsica, a rally was organized in front of the stele in tribute to the victims.

Hundreds of residents, but also victims were gathered to share this moment of emotion.

The rain mixed with tears on Karine's cheeks.

Her eyes riveted on the children who begin a song of homage, she explains to the microphone of Europe 1 to have hesitated to come.

"It seemed to me that today, my place was here", she explains.

"I had to represent my sister who left on Furiani's day."

His daily routine now?

Her wheelchair, which "will always remind her that I fell at Furiani and that I lost big," she continues.

"But it's not every day on May 5," she says, optimistic.

"When we come back here, we don't cry the same way."

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Here, right next to the collapsed grandstand where dozens of people are marching today to lay a wreath near a black marble slab.

19 names, including that of Denise's brother.

"All these candles, all these flowers," she says.

"We feel that we are not alone, that we are accompanied", continues Denise.

"Here, the sun goes down and the atmosphere rises"

The crowd is dense.

In the last row, many young Corsican people, like Elena, 22 years old.

"I did not know this drama," she told Europe 1. "But I grew up with the history of Sporting [Club de Bastia]. So inevitably, when you come every year, it's always difficult,” she says.

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At the end of the ceremony, the president of the collective of victims speaks, her voice a little hoarse.

"You who this day of May 5 were present for the celebration, the joy, the sharing.", she begins, before quoting, to finish, this sentence inscribed just in front of the stele.

The last words of a journalist before his fall, 30 years ago: "Here, the sun is going down and the atmosphere is rising."