An arson attack on Saturday evening in Serra-di-Ferro (Southern Corsica) destroyed a second home, owned by a man living in the Lyon region. On the house were found nationalist inscriptions “GCC”, indicated the prosecutor of Ajaccio, Nicolas Septe.
These letters, which mean “Ghjuventù clandestina corsa”, or “the Corsican clandestine youth” in the Corsican language, were found alongside the “drawing of a stylized Corsica”, or even the sign of “the armata di l’ombra (“the shadow army” in Corsican) and the drawing of a bomb”, detailed the prosecutor, who specifies that he warned the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat).
Since June, the acronym “GCC” has been discovered on a dozen villas or burning machines in Corsica. The island has known for a year a multiplication of arson attacks mainly targeting second homes of French people living in France, often with the presence of tags, but without official claim.
Campsites, beach restaurants, construction companies and construction machinery were also damaged by intentional fires. On July 11, sixteen of these acts were claimed by the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), a clandestine independence group. The Pnat had seized all the facts.