Corsica

Corsica national parklands chief shot dead

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Jean-Luc Chiappini, 65, was ambushed and killed by a gunman riding pillion on a high-powered motorbike as he left Ajaccio airport by car.

Corsica holiday home bombings 'a kind of racism', says French interior minister

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Manuel Valls says bombings of holiday homes on Corsica on Friday was 'a kind of racism', implicitly implicating nationalists over the attacks.

French government targets Corsica crime gangs

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The shooting last week of a prominent lawyer on Corsica, the 15th such assasination this year, prompts crackdown on organised crime on the island.

Prominent Corsican lawyer gunned down

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Jean-Dominique Allegrini-Simonetti, whose clients included the island's nationalist leaders and politicians, was shot dead at a petrol station.