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THE TRUTH ABOUT: French government floats corsican autonomy as unrest jolts election campaign - The Untold Story

Graffiti calling for the release of Corsican nationalists Yvan Colonna, Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, pictured in Bastia on March 14, 2022. © Pascal Pochard-Casabianca, AFP

President Emmanuel Macron’s government has said it is open to discussing “autonomy” for Corsica in a bid to calm days of violent protests on the Mediterranean island with just weeks to go before France’s presidential election.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin dropped the A-word as he set off for a two-day visit to Corsica on Wednesday, two weeks after a violent assault on a jailed Corsican nationalist triggered a wave of unrest on the île de Beauté (island of beauty).

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