Dossier. 50 Years Later, What Memory of Aleria Events in Corsica?
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On 21 and 22 August 1975, the events of Aleria upset the whole of Corsica. Fifty years later, they remain engraved in the memory of those who crossed them. But for many young people, who had not yet been born, this pivotal moment seems to be fading.


On 21 August 1975, some twenty armed self-nomists occupied the wine cellar of a returnee from Algeria to Aleria, village of Haute-Corse, to denounce a financial scandal linked to island wines. The action, led by Dr. Edmond Simeoni, father of the present strongman of the island Gilles Simeoni,
Fifty years after the events of Aleria, a bloodthirsty birth certificate of modern Corsican nationalism, the autonomists obtained that Parliament would study in the autumn a draft constitutional law to grant the island "autonomy in the Republic".On August 21, 1975, a...
Ajaccio - Fifty years after the events of Aleria, the bloody birth certificate of modern Corsican nationalism, the autonomists obtained that Parliament was studying in the autumn a draft constitutional law aimed at granting the island "autonomy in the Republic". On 21 August 1975, some twenty armed autonomists occupied the wine cellar of a repatriated Algerian in this village of Haute-Corse to denounce a financial scandal linked to the island wi…
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