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Corsican conflict
Date
4 May 1976 – 25 June 2016 (1976-05-04 – 2016-06-25) (40 years, 1 month and 3 weeks) 9 March 2022 (2022-03-09) – present (2 years, 1 month and 3 weeks)[a]
Location
Corsica Violence occasionally spread to mainland France and Italy
Status
Ongoing
Belligerents
France
French Armed Forces (1 barracks on Corsica)
National Gendarmerie
National Police
Municipal Police
Anti-separatist paramilitaries
Front d'Action Nouvelle Contre l'Indépendance et l'Autonomie[1]
Criminal groups
Corsican mafia
Corsican nationalist paramilitaries:
National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) A Cuncolta Naziunalista (ACN) (1987-1998) Armata di U Populu Corsu (APC) (2004-2006) Armata Corsa (AC) (1999-2001) Resistenza (1989-2003)
Strength
2,800+ Police and Gendarmeries,[2] and 1,300 Soldiers (of the FFL, by Calvi)
300–1,000 members
Casualties and losses
14 killed
Several arrested
+140 deaths[3]
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The Corsican conflict is an armed and political conflict on the island of Corsica which began in 1976 between the government of France and Corsican nationalist militant groups. Beginning in the 1970s, the Corsican conflict peaked in the 1980s before Corsican nationalist groups and the French government reached a truce in 2016. It is currently ongoing following the 2022 Corsica unrest.
^"Pour la première fois depuis 1993, le FLNC revendique un assassinat". Le Monde.fr. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
^"La conduite de la politique de sécurité menée par l'Etat en Corse". 3 April 2023.
^"35. France/Corsica (1967-present)".
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