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at the complex. The rebels fired back with their hunting rifles. Two gendarmes were shot and killed, while one of the militants lost his right foot to the blast of one of the grenades. Forensic experts later concluded that the fire position from which the dead gendarmes were shot was not within the
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After the standoff was over, violent demonstrations erupted in
Ajaccio and Bastia. The Gendarmerie intervened with their armored vehicles. On the night of 27 August, another gendarme was killed with a hunting rifle by a sniper in the course of the clashes. The perpetrator was arrested. The ARC was
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and adulteration in the production drove down the quality of
Corsican wines, and led to a boycott in mainland France's markets. Corsican nationalists stood by the small wine producers of the island, financially damaged by both the sanctions and the unfair competition.
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After just three minutes of exchanging fire with the troopers, the militants raised the white flag. Simeoni was seen providing first aid to a wounded gendarme and eventually surrendered voluntarily to the French authorities.
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banned by the French government on the same day. Simeoni was sentenced to five years in jail, but by 1977 he was a free man. At the time of the trial on
Simeoni, on 21 May 1976, a new-borne nationalist organization, the
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