Alain Orsoni, former president AC Ajaccio and a Corsican nationalist leader who was charged with murder, was shot dead by a sniper while his mother’s funeral in the village Vero (Upper Corsica).
He was hit by a long-range shot
Former political and football leader suffered three gunshot wounds in front of 50 witnesses who attended the funeral and died instantly.
“It was a moment of pain and sadness. Suddenly we heard a shot and Alain collapsed, dead.”
“He was shot from a long distance,” said prosecutor Nicolas Septe.
Roger Polge, the priest who conducted the funeral, told France 3 that “it was a moment of pain and sadness. Suddenly we heard a shot and Alain fell down, dead.”
The public prosecutor is investigating the case The murder of Orsoni as a planned operation by an organized gang.
Alain Orsoni, a life marked by violence, attacks and murders
The former leader of the National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC), who had to live in exile for several years in Spain and Latin America, left the presidency of AC Ajaccio in 2025 after a decade in power and in financial trouble.
Alain Orsoni’s life was always characterized by violence. In In 2008, he survived an assassination attempt and in In 1983 he lost his brother Guy (one of the most wanted fugitives in Corsica) in an attack which is said to be connected with The Corsican Mafia.
Authorities linked Orsonis’ nationalist political activities to a series of attacks on Corsica in the 1990s.
Orsoni was also accused, convicted and later pardoned in connection with a machine gun attack on the Iranian embassy in Paris in 1980.