Corsican conflict

Corsican conflict
Date	4 May 1976 – 25 June 2016 (40 years, 1 month and 3 weeks); 9 March 2022 – present (3 years, 3 months, 1 week and 4 days)
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; 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); Other small groups
Commanders and leaders
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing; François Mitterrand; 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, and 1,300 Soldiers (of the FFL, by Calvi)	Unknown, likely thousands of members
Casualties and losses
14 killed	Several arrested
	+140 deaths

The Corsican conflict (Corsican: Conflittu Corsu; French: Conflit Corse) 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, mainly the National Liberation Front of Corsica (Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica, FLNC) and factions of the group. Beginning in the 1970s, the Corsican conflict peaked in the 1980s before Corsican nationalist groups and the French government reached a truce with one of the two main splinters of the FLNC, the FLNC-Union of Combatants (FLNC-Unione di i Cumbattenti, FLNC-UC) in June 2014. In 2016, the other main splinter, the FLNC-22nd of October (FLNC-22 Uttrovi, FLNC-22U) also declared a truce. It is currently ongoing following the 2022 Corsica unrest and the return to arms of the FLNC-UC and FLNC-22U.