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Former Corsican Nationalist Leader Alain Orsoni Shot Dead at His Mother’s Funeral

Prosecutors have opened a probe into a suspected gang-organized killing.

Overview

  • Authorities said the 71-year-old was killed by a single shot fired from a long gun at a distance.
  • The attack occurred during the service in the village of Vero before roughly 50 mourners.
  • French prosecutors opened an investigation on suspicion of a gang-organized murder, with the motive not yet established.
  • Witnesses received emergency psychological support at a hospital in Ajaccio.
  • Orsoni was a former FLNC figure and ex-AC Ajaccio president who survived a 2008 assassination attempt, as media also recalled his brother’s 1983 killing and his later business activities abroad.