During the ceremony, he praised what he called Erignac's commitment to bringing peace to Corsica. "Twenty years later, the republic must preserve this ambition, to bring about a future for Corsica that matches its hopes without compromising with demands that would tear it away from the bosom of the republic," Macron said.
The shooting of Erignac, outside a theater in the capital Ajaccio, stunned France and marked a sharp escalation in nationalist violence on the island. [...]
Separatists launched a violent campaign involving bombings and assassinations in the mid-1970s. But they laid down their weapons following a ceasefire in 2014 to instead seek change through politics.
They have long called for greater autonomy from Paris, but unlike the region of Catalonia in Spain, they do not want full independence. Other demands include equal recognition of the Corsican language, preferential access to the property market for locals and the release of so-called political Corsican prisoners held in mainland prisons.
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