In a four-page letter, the pro-armed struggle independence movement Nazione appeals Tuesday, December 10 to Pope Francis, visiting Corsica on Sunday, to “contribute to real peace” et “respectful of the existence of an ancient people” in the island.
As “you will not fail to know that a large number of Corsicans have been engaged in a fight for emancipation for half a century”writes the independence movement to Pope Francis, regretting that “the French state still refuses, as stubbornly as in the last century, to recognize the major crime it committed against a sovereign people that it persists in denying”.
Accusing the French State of“organize a strategy of deculturation, land dispossession and commodification” de la Corsica, Nazione, which has only one elected woman in the Corsican Assembly, solicits François “not for an intervention but rather to hear the pastor’s words on the disorder that would be induced by the perpetuation of our situation both in terms of universal rights and social and cultural balance”.
“Your word is expected”
Ensuring that “the Catholic Church has asserted itself, at various times, as a major actor in conflict resolution and recognition of the rights of peoples”the movement assures the pope “that on Corsican soil, your word is expected to contribute to real peace, a peace respectful of the existence of a thousand-year-old people resolutely determined to live”.
Nazione is a Corsican independence party favorable to armed struggle, born in January 2024 by absorbing in particular the separatists of Corsica Libera.