A Corsican nationalist leader has been shot dead by a long-range sniper while attending his mother’s funeral. Alain Orsoni was killed while a priest was reading the last rites in the village of Vero, ...

Alain Orsoni, 71, was a well-known separatist figure in Corsica who had been living in exile for years in Nicaragua.

France’s newly inaugurated anti–organised crime bureau is to investigate the murder of the former Corsican separatist leader Alain Orsoni, who was shot dead while attending his mother’s funeral on ...

Alain Orsoni, who led the separatist Corsican Movement for Self-Determination before becoming the president of Corsican football club ‍AC Ajaccio, was killed by a long-range shot at his mother's ...

Alain Orsoni, a former leader of the Movement for Self-Determination on the French island of Corsica, had spent time in exile ...

After the murder of nationalist leader Alain Orsoni at his mother's funeral on Monday, the French island of Corsica faces the ...

PRESS REVIEW – Tuesday, January 13: A Corsican separatist leader is gunned down while attending his mother's funeral. Also, a famous Italian anti-mafia writer pens an opinion piece, questioning the ...

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Orsoni, 71, was shot while he was attending his mother's funeral in the cemetery of Vero, in his family village located about thirty kilometers from Ajaccio, according to the city's prosecutor. "He ...