After the arrests in the Corsican nationalist milieu in the middle of the week, two individuals were released without charge, and one was indicted. He will be presented to an examining magistrate. The other two, including Corsica Libera activist Pierre Paoli, were released on Sunday, we learned from sources close to the investigation.
At the end of three days of police custody, a man “is the subject of a warrant to bring for a presentation to the examining magistrate in the week” at the anti-terrorist pole of the Paris court for a possible indictment, said a source close to the investigation.
Two other people were released without charge at this stage on Sunday afternoon, she added. One of them is Pierre Paoli, said sources familiar with the matter and the investigation. An activist of the independence party Corsica Libera, Pierre Paoli is suspected of having been the leader of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC).
The announcement of a new armed group
His release “was written from the start in view of the absence of elements against him”, reacted Me Jean-Francois Casalta, lawyer for Pierre Paoli. These three people had been arrested Thursday morning as part of a judicial investigation opened by the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat), in particular the head of a terrorist criminal association, a judicial source had indicated.
These arrests, carried out by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate (Sdat) of the judicial police, are linked to the investigation into a clandestine press conference organized in May 2021, said a source familiar with the matter. The creation of a new armed group called “FLNC Maghju 21” (May 2021) was announced during this conference.