Corsican conflict

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Corsican conflict
Date 4 May 1976 – 25 June 2016 (1976-05-04 – 2016-06-25) (40 years, 1 month and 3 weeks) 9 March 2022 (2022-03-09) – present (2 years, 5 months and 3 weeks)[a] Location Corsica Violence occasionally spread to mainland France and Italy Status Ongoing
Belligerents
France French Armed Forces (1 barracks on Corsica) National Gendarmerie National Police Municipal Police Anti-separatist paramilitaries Front d'Action Nouvelle Contre l'Indépendance et l'Autonomie[1] Criminal groups Corsican mafia	Corsican Separatist Paramilitaries National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) FLNC-Canal Historique (FLNC-CS) (1988-1998) FLNC-Canal Habituel (FLNC-CA) (1988-1997) Resistenza (1989-2003) Fronte Ribellu (1996-1999) FLNC-5 Maghju (FLNC-5M) (1996-1999) Armata Corsa (AC) (1999-2001) FLNC-Unione di i Cumbattenti (FLNC-UC) (1999-present) FLNC-22 Uttrovi (FLNC-22U) (2002-present) Armata di U Populu Corsu (APC) (2004-2006) FLNC-5 Maghju 1976 (FLNC-1976) (2007-present) FLNC-21 Maghju (FLNC-21M) (2021-present)
Commanders and leaders
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing François Mitterand Jacques Chirac Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande Emmanuel Macron	Léo Battesti Alain Orsoni Jean-Michel Rossi François Santoni Natale Luciani Paul-Felix Benedetti (allegedly) Stephane Ori (allegedly)
Strength
2,800+ Police and Gendarmeries,[2] and 1,300 Soldiers (of the FFL, by Calvi)	Unknown, likely thousands of members
Casualties and losses
14 killed	Several arrested
+140 deaths[3]

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The Corsican conflict is an armed and political conflict on the island of Corsica which began in 1976 between the government of France and Corsican nationalist militant groups. Beginning in the 1970s, the Corsican conflict peaked in the 1980s before Corsican nationalist groups and the French government reached a truce in 2016. It is currently ongoing following the 2022 Corsica unrest.

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