This is popular front a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're speaking to documentary filmmaker

Lionel Dumas. He is born and raised in Corsica, he still lives there and he's going to be talking to us about the

return of the Corsican separatist militant group the FLNC. It's a group you might not have heard about but they were very active in the

90s blowing up buildings they executed a French mayor and now they've kind of stepped in and said yeah we're still here due to current

situations in Corsica. The FLNC wants independence for Corsica taking

themselves away from the rule of France. Support us at

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For those that don't know because you know generally this is more of an obscure kind of

group outside of Europe for those that don't know just explain first if you can a kind of brief history of the FLNC and you know the

reason that there's tension between Corsica and France. Okay so so first of all, if we go back a little bit in back history,

so Corsica is an island.

It's in the Mediterranean, it's used to belong to not Italy because at the time was the Republic of

general Italy was many different republics and things.

So we used to belong to people coming over

and invade the island.

So for bit, like I think it was 500 years we belong to a lot of time we belong to to

general we kick them out at some point so we took our independence And Genoa wanted to have some help from the French to pacify the island and to get it back.

So they kind of sold it to France, sold the island to France like, okay, we have too much trouble with those guys. So take the island, do something about it and maybe we get it back you know

So that's how we become French in

1769

Basically we lost we lost the war against the French, came here to pacify and we didn't want to pacify, no.

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