Corsica police station car-bombed

[Stormz_STA]

A car bomb has exploded outside a police station on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.

"It's a miracle there was only material damage. People could have been killed," a Corsican government spokesman told the AFP news agency.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8162921.stm

[Trenk]

damn.. separatists?

[Aeroflot]

Shhoot, Al-Qaeda finally got the French.

[Panchito12]

Drunken Legionnaires from the 2eREP?p-)

[Nansouty]

damn.. separatists?

Probably.
Le Monde strates that the car was not loaded with explosives, but with a gas bottle, which is somewhat less destructive, and very typical of the FLNC (Front National de Libération de la Corse ) or its many offsprings... It was parked along the barrack's external wall, and shards of metal andf rubble have beenb projected onto a very frequented street, and could have caused serious hurt to passers-by.


http://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2009/07/22/attentat-a-la-voiture-piegee-contre-une-gendarmerie-corse_1221327_3224.html#ens_id=1219049

[Vorian]

I will never understand why people would want to secede from a first world nation, especially one that doesn't opress them in any way

[Atlantic Friend]

I will never understand why people would want to secede from a first world nation, especially one that doesn't opress them in any way

Our modern Corsican separatists are now little more than a criminal gang. The last thing they want is a referendum about secession, they know full well how it would go.

But wait, we do oppress them! Corsicans have fiscal advantages (no tax on succession IIRC), and along with Bretons they must have given France one of the largest contingents of Ministers, Secrétaires d'Etat, high-ranking officials ever, not to mention an Emperor. Oh, the terrible oppression... p-)

[Dercius]

damn.. terrorists?

corrected for you

[Mordoror]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8162921.stm


none event

happens at least once every month (sometimes once evry week)

[Atlantic Friend]

none event

happens at least once every month (sometimes once evry week)

Still, usually the FNLC doesn't go into blind terrorism - their usual MO is to limit the risk of life, not blowing up cars in the middle of busy streets and in full day. Either someone's getting "bolder", or he's getting dumber.

[Mordoror]

Still, usually the FNLC doesn't go into blind terrorism - their usual MO is to limit the risk of life, not blowing up cars in the middle of busy streets and in full day. Either someone's getting "bolder", or he's getting dumber.

you are right
they usually warn through the medias and EOD teams have the time to neutralize or evacuate the area

actually however they set up the bomb for 6 am which is not a busy day time
and it is not more or less dangerous to fire RPGs grenades or PKM full magazines on "gendarmerie" outposts

actually independantists are in a middle of internal stuggle among different branches and elements
maybe such kind of" irresponsible" action (to quote or Interior ministry) is a result of that

[Atlantic Friend]

Maybe the time detonator ran a little slow.

[acosta]

esprit de la libre...

[SoSo]

I will never understand why people would want to secede from a first world nation, especially one that doesn't opress them in any way

Depending on how much money Paris pumps into the Corsican economy, the island might actually be much worse off as an independent nation than as a part of France. But maybe the seperatists believe they themselves would stand to gain, by becoming the leaders of an independent Corsica.