Overview
- The 71-year-old was a prominent Corsican nationalist figure, a former FLNC leader and founder of the MPA, and a past president of AC Ajaccio.
- The prosecutor’s office said he was struck by a single long‑range round at about 16:30 in Vero and died at the scene.
- The Ajaccio investigative department and Corse‑du‑Sud criminal identification unit have taken charge of the probe as a murder by an organized group.
- Local media report the shooter fled after the attack and police are searching, with no arrests announced.
- Orsoni had survived a 2008 assassination attempt, lost his brother Guy to a 1983 killing, and spent years abroad in Florida, Nicaragua’s gambling sector, and Spain.