Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica (FLNC) -- Founding Group (Suspected)

Founded in the summer of 1999, the Corsican Patriotic Front (FPC) was a nationalist terrorist organization that sought to preserve the culture and language of the Corsican people and create an independent Corsica. The FPC emerged several days after a clandestine meeting was held by the Corsican National Liberation Front-Historical Wing (FLNC), in which the group rejected Paris' September 1999 call for Corsicans to renounce violence. FPC membership consisted of militants from other Corsican nationalist terrorist groups as well as Corsican terrorists that acted alone. <p><br />To achieve their objectives, the FPC engaged in small-scale bombings of various business, private, and government targets in Corsica. On the night of September 30th, 1999, the FPC claimed responsibility for six attacks and three other failed attempts. A post office, the holiday home of a 'mainlander,' a local bank branch, a Treasury building, and an electric company office were among the locations targeted by the FPC. The FPC claimed that the attacks were conducted as a result of French Prime Minister Jospin's 'contempt' towards the Corsican people and culture. <p><br />

In December 1999, the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) issued a general truce to the French governing authority, and the FPC agreed to cease hostilities soon thereafter. However, in April, the FPC issued a statement declaring their frustration with what they perceived to be a lack of effort on the part of the French government to resolve the French-Corsican impasse. Though two attacks in the summer of 2000 were claimed by the FPC, a unilateral truce was issued in August of the same year by the group's leadership. Since then, there has been no mention of the group, and it appears that they are currently inactive. Still, anti-French violence committed by Corsican nationalist groups is expected to continue until a lasting agreement is accepted by both sides.