Corsica

Corsica is a French island in the Mediterranean Sea. Recent news focuses on a gangland killing that occurred at a funeral in the village of Vero, near Ajaccio. The victim was Alain Orsoni, a 71-year-old former Corsican separatist leader who had been living in exile in Nicaragua. Organized crime prosecutors are investigating the shooting. Orsoni was a well-known figure on the island. Separately, a portrait of Pascal Paoli, an 18th-century Corsican independence leader, is going on sale, highlighting the island's history of seeking autonomy. These events underscore Corsica's complex identity, marked by both its idyllic image and its struggles with organized crime and historical pursuit of independence.