Overview
- Authorities say a single long‑gun round struck Orsoni around 4:30 p.m. local time and he died at the scene.
- Early reports indicate the shot was fired from the maquis near the cemetery, and the gunman remains unidentified.
- Prosecutor Nicolas Septe visited the site and assigned the case jointly to national police and the gendarmerie.
- Orsoni was a former FLNC leader who founded the MPA before years abroad in business and later ran AC Ajaccio.
- He previously survived a 2008 assassination attempt, and reports differ on his age at death, citing 71 or 72.