US EditionEx-Corsican Nationalist Leader, Soccer Club President Alain Orsoni Shot Dead at Mother's Funeral
Alain Orsoni, 71, was killed by a single long-range bullet at his mother’s funeral; police have launched a probe into murder by an organized gang.
- On Monday, January 12, Alain Orsoni was shot dead while attending his mother's funeral in Vero, Corsica, and local police confirmed the killing as an assassination.
- Orsoni had a decades-long militant background, founding and leading the Movement for Self-Determination , leaving Corsica in 1996 exile amid infighting, and being pardoned after a 1980 embassy attack conviction.
- Prosecutor Nicolas Septe, Ajaccio public prosecutor, told Reuters, `He was hit by a long-range shot,` and police said Alain Orsoni was struck by a single bullet to the chest.
- Le Monde reported Ajaccio public prosecutor Nicolas Septe opened an investigation into murder by an organised gang, while FRANCE 24, Reuters and AP covered Orsoni's death, which resonated in political and sporting circles due to his AC Ajaccio presidency.
- Authorities note ties between Orsoni's political front and the FLNC-Traditional Wing, which prosecutors link to 1990s attacks on Corsica and view as the legal front of the Corsican Movement for Self-Determination.
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In Corsica, an ex-leader of the nationalists is shot dead during his mother's funeral. As early as 2008, Alain Orsoni escaped a murder attempt.
The former separatist leader of Corsica Alain Orsoni was shot dead for months, during his mother's death in Vero, a village 30 miles east of Ajaccio, the capital of the French island of the Mediterranean Sea,...
Alain Orsoni died at the age of 71. The former president of AC Ajaccio was attending his mother's funeral in the village of Vero, in South Corsica, when he was shot dead by a sniper on Monday, January 12.
The former nationalist leader Alain Orsoni was shot dead at his mother's funeral in Corsica. The facts occurred in Vero (Corse-du-Sud), near Ajaccio. This former president of the professional football club Ajaccio was reconverted into business. During the funeral in the village of Vero, on Monday 12 January, Alain Orsoni was killed by a gunman with a long-gun caulking in the maquis. The shooter fled and he is still wanted. Ajaccio Nicolas Septe'…
Former Corsican separatist leader Orsoni assassinated at mother's funeral
Alain Orsoni, who led the separatist Corsican Movement for Self-Determination before becoming the president of Corsican football club AC Ajaccio, was killed by a long-range shot at his mother's funeral…
A former leader of the Corsican separatists, Alain Orsoni, was shot dead at his mother's funeral. The authorities believe it was "murder by an organized gang." The 71-year-old Orsoni was killed around 4:30 p.m. during the funeral in the Corsican village of Vero, presumably by a sniper. He died at the scene. "It was a moment of grief and mourning. Suddenly we heard a shot, and Alain collapsed, dead," the priest who conducted the funeral service t…
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