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Sunday, July 20, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:29 AM:
French news headlines:Here's the big French news from FNC:
Two Blasts Rock French Resort City
At least 11 injured in Nice; explosions under investigation
Now a look at what's topping headlines for the French media:
Unfortunately, not a lot. As regular readers know, the French newspapers online are generally useless on Saturdays. Today is no exception so all we have is Le Monde. Still Le Monde is ahead of Fox. Here it is.
Le Monde: Double Bombing in Nice. The bilan: 16 injured. Unidentified caller in unverifiable call makes claim that FLNC is responsible. A similarly unverifiable claim of responsibility was issued after a Sept. 25, 2002 attack on a gov't building in Nice.
The FLNC is the Front pour la Libération Nationale de Corse, a group that favors Corsica's independence from France. Corsican nationalists have experienced a lot of blows of late. There is the arrest of the alleged murderer of a former prefect of Corsica named Erignac. There are the sentences for alleged co-conspirators who were nowhere near where the shooting took place. And there is the rejection of a referendum (by a very close margin) to make Corsica the first laboratory for PM Raffarin's decentralization theories and thus a much more locally independent entity.
We should have more on the story tomorrow as more details become available. The important thing to know for the moment is that this was by all accounts domestic terrorism for reasons of pure politics, not an action by international Islamicists.
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