Paris - Corsican nationalists have put another hole in the French Prime Minister's leaky ship of State, by renouncing the truce they declared last June after Mr Lionel Jospin's election, Lara Marlowe reports. Twenty hooded men from the "Corsican National Liberation Front - Historic Branch" (FLNC) met journalists in the Corsican countryside during the night of January 25th to 26th.
A masked guerrilla read a six-page statement saying the French government had interpreted their political gesture as a sign of weakness, and they had to break the truce "to make the State realise the necessity of a lasting peace in Corsica".