It was while attending his mother’s funeral that Alain Orsoni was shot and killed this Monday in Vero, not far from Ajaccio. The 71-year-old man was reportedly shot dead by a sniper, the victim of a single projectile received in the chest. Immediately dispatched to the scene, emergency services attempted to resuscitate the former president of the ACA for an hour, before pronouncing him dead.
“ It is a time of pain and sorrow. Suddenly, we hear a gunshot, and Alain falls deadconfides to France 3 Corse Abbot Roger Polge, who then paid tribute to Alain Orsoni’s mother, who died a few days earlier. What is going on with us? Corsica seems worse to me than Sicily, it’s unimaginable… »
Two murder attempts aborted in the past
Boss of AC Ajaccio from 2008 to 2015 and, more recently, between 2022 and 2023, Alain Orsoni was also and above all a figure of the Corsican nationalist movement, former head of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) then founder of the Movement for Self-Determination (MPA).
Already in 2008, Alain Orsoni was targeted by an assassination attempt, recalls Agence France Presse. His brother Guy, also a Corsican nationalist activist, was shot dead in June 1983 while his eldest was apparently targeted. “ The specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Marseille and the national anti-organized crime prosecutor’s office (PNACO) jointly took charge of the investigation », Reports France Info.
