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.