The Uprising in Corsica

listeners not much about. So why don't you Why don't you start with kind of like what what brought you down there? Yeah? No, it's a really good point. A lot of people don't even know it exists. I sent the documentary made Um with Popular Front to a friend of mine today and he said, brother, us the first time I've ever heard of Corsica Like a lot of people don't know. Boy. It's so it's a very old island, um.

You know, more than two hundred years people have inhabited the plays, but generally for the last kind of two hundred years there's been an on again, off again independence movement. They're people that don't want to be under the control of France or whoever. They want control of their own island. Because Corsican is quite a specific culture. Um, it's very different to French culture, it's different to Italian culture. They

even have their own language called Course. Unfortunately, it's kind of dying out, as you know, a lot of languages do in kind of contested areas if you like. Um. But yeah, so so they've always kind of wanted to be independent in some way. Not everybody, not the whole place. I'm sure you'll find some course Becans that will say their course and Confrench, but generally the majority of people if you go there and say, well are you they'll

tell you with Corsican, we're not French with Corsican. So in the nineties seventies, that kind of coalesced was rebirthed, if you like, with the backdrop of you know, guns, bombs and independence movements of course Europe and a group called the f l n C formed the Nationalist Liberation Front for Corsica and they arrived with twenty one bombs

on the island in one night. I mean not arrived, you know, they were already there, of course, but they bombed twenty one times in one night, mostly French infrastructure,

and they were all very very well armed. There was literally hundreds of members and at one point I have to I don't want to say this because it's been a while since I looked at the research, but if I'm right, at one point in the in the late seventies or early eighties, the Effllency was actually the most active militant or terrorist group in the whole of Europe, even even more active than the Provisional IRA. Now Provisional IRA called a lot more people the f l n C.

Their targets weren't really to kill people. They were to blow up holiday homes and blow up French infrastructure. They didn't have open gun battles, and they did assassinate the the highest ranking French officer on Corsica on the island eventually. But yeah, so so there was this real backdrop of very militant um independence. When I say nationalists, it's not it's not what we might associate with like far right nationalists.

You know, when an independent movement doesn't have its own country, you know, the ultra nationalism in their sense comes out in a very different way. It's not we want to ban everybody else from here. It's simply we want our country, you know what I mean. So when I say ultra nationalists, that's not to be confused with fascist ultra nationalist. It's very different. Not to say that couskins all believe in in leftist causes and that that wouldn't be true. A

lot of them do. There's a big socialist element to to the cause, and there's also quite a right wing element to the cause, but ultimately they all kind of want the same thing, autonomy or independence of Corsica. So yeah, So that that's the kind of history very briefly of militant independence movements in Corsica. FLNC put down their guns and recently one of the fln C was suspected FLNC militants who shot this this high ranking French official that I told you about. Um this this guy is called

Evan Colina. He was arrested after the shooting in the nineties and sent to a French prison for life. And on March the sixth, I believe it was, he was no very much. Second, he was attacked in a French prison by a Jahadics inmate and beaten into a coma. Yesterday or two days ago now he died of his injuries. Ever since he was beaten into this comma, the youth would just kind of lit the place on fight. You know,

they were really clashing very violently. And for for the last kind of seven years since there was as a was a relative calm on the island in terms of political activism and militancy, the politicians, the more moderate parties have tried to do this politically and for the first time in a while, the youth have gone, not fuck it, We're not playing that anymore. We're we're going to knock the place about. We're going to smash the shop up. And basically it's kind of worked, which we can go into.

But yeah, so sorry to go on a lot, but there's quite a lot to it because obviously, like you said, a lot of people don't know. But one thing I always say is Corsica is just one of the most beautiful places anybody will go to. Like objectively, it's idyllic. It's not really had this horrible holiday home vibe there because genuinely, when when some contractors tried to kind of gentrify a course to come and turn it into the next ib through I believe one of the quotes was

from one of the people doing this. The f l n C kind of waited for them to build their homes and then blew them all up and blew up all their hotels. So it was like they're like, you're not going to do that here. A lot of these companies were infringing on the environment, which is beautiful there. And yeah, so there's a lot more to it, but generally, you know, this all kind of revolves around militant independence. Yeah,

that's interesting. I mean, I think it's fascinating the idea of targeting, like the degree to which a lot of this seems to be focused on stopping this place from turning into another vacation destination, or like rich people's second homes push out the population that's born there. Um. I think there's a lot of places that, like organizer complaining about that sort of thing. Um, But I'm not aware of anyone who's gone to these kind of lengths to

stab themselves from turning into another a visa. Yeah. Yeah, And honestly, if you go to Corsica and see how beautiful it is, not just I mean, it's one of the few places in Europe where you can see the mountains from the beach. You know, it's incredible island. I've been obsessed with this place since I was about twenty four years old. Firstly from the nature and the beauty there, but secondly I was very interested in the militant group there,

um because the culture there is so different. But yeah, if you look at the place, you go there and you realize, like, right, this place is very much worth preserving. I don't want to act like there hasn't been businesses doing their thing there. There definitely is, but certainly it feels preserved. There's no high rises. All of the old

buildings are still there and they're still intact. And you know when when these big businesses came in and a lot of these businessmen were almost showing off like yeah, we're gonna turn course occur into Waibetha, which as a brit Um I would apologize to anyone living inever, you know, like having sex in the street and throwing up at bars and everything here you go there, Um, it's kind of been turned into one big not the Great club,

yeah yeah, not the Great Club definitely. Yeah. So so you know, it's it's one of these ones where It's like I could kind of understand. I'm not saying anyone should bomb anywhere, certainly not, but I do understand the sentiment there. And one of the one of my course and friends said, um, some people were calling it like the cold bed policy. So you come to our island, you buy a holiday home, and if you leave that bed cold as in you're not even living here, it's

gonna get blown up, you know if you like. So very militant, very violent, but if effective. I mean, it doesn't mean that you have to agree with it, but no one can deny that it hasn't been effective. But at the same time, there's a very big mafia presence on the island as well, so that you know, it's not to say that everything is all for the people.

I'm going to guess that the mafia is more or less on the side of, you know, turn this place into a vacation destination because that's where the money is. That that would be my essentially. Really that's interesting. No, So the unfortunately the independence movement, not all of them, but there is an element to it that is very hand in hand with the mafia. Most definitely, perhaps some

people that were independent militants are now mafia if you like. Um, and people have been killed on the island quite a lot. There's quite a lot of you know, unsolved murders there. It's quite sad. Um. But no, they they were more for keeping their own interests. You know, Um, we have this island, we can run the docks, we can run this, we can run that. And whilst what you said like makes sense, right, you would think, oh, no, they'd be

for this money. I think what they want. They're still nationalists. At the end of the day. They won't control, but they won't control in their own way. If the big business comes in and start saying, oh, yeah, we're doing this and that and the other, and we're bringing all these people in via the docks, I guess they lose control of that essentially. So they were very much on the side of yeah, do what you like sort of thing, and I think fascinating. Yeah, so very unique, very specific place.

You mentioned that this action you shut up for people bombed twenty one targets in one night. In one night. Yeah, when you say bomb, are we talking like your standard molotabs or were they are? Were they kind of like more elaborate devices? Shall we say, how would you describe what they were using? Yeah, no, it's a good question. I mean when you think of twenty one in one night, you think, right, like molotovs night, something simple. Yeah, yeah, No, No,

they weren't even pipe bombs. You're talking fertilizer bombs. Yeah, like blowing whole buildings, you know, not all of them, you know, there were some smaller ones, but some very significant ones um and very very big. The way of Corsica is the way it's laid out. Like I said, it's a small place. I think currently like three people lived there roughly, and there were mountains, there were beaches, there were very rural communities. It's an islands. It's quite

far away from France. Actually, it's very close to Italy um and Sardinia is just to its south. And it's just for them. If you were you couldn't ask for a better location, if you wanted to be a kind of guerrilla group, you know, you really couldn't. It's kind of built for them. So they just got away with it, you know, farmers whatever, they went into the mountains, build

bombs dropped them off. And not to say that everybody was for them, but there is some It wasn't just we want independence, there was there was subjugation by the French. You know. Firstly, they're like, we don't want to be a French colony or whatever you would call it anymore, which I think anybody that wants their determination to not be held by a former colonial power it's fine, or current colonial power if you like, I think, yeah, fair

play to them. But secondly, they're one of the most poorer regions, despite having all this holiday stuff, despite having a lot of produce, despite having a lot of reasons to be there. So there's definitely something. I won't claim to know too much about the law situation, and I'm sure a lot of French people get angry whatever, but it is genuinely doing very badly in many different aspects. Is that mismanagement by them? Is it because of the French?

I couldn't tell you. I don't know enough about it, but I certainly find it very weird that all of these beautiful things that happened on the island and they're they're constantly in you know, the lower bracket of situations economically, culturally, they're getting kind of sidelined a bit. So I do I do understand, and certainly when the clashes or even protests happen in the seventies, the police, you know, French police. I'm sorry, but there's some of the worst fucking police ever,

you know. And I've been in front of Turkish police, like French police are fucking up there. They're horrible, and they beat the ship out of a lot of people in Cortica just for peacefully protesting, you know. So it didn't come from nowhere, you know what I mean, there is there is more to it than just nationalism and independence. There's a lot more to it. They want to, they want to they want to deal with their own affairs, a lot of them, you know, most people probably now

want to do it democratically. But like I said, the youth were said, no funk, that we're not getting anywhere, and they've Actually it's actually worked because the day after the Rights that we filmed on March thirteen, the Interior Minister of France basically said, right, we're willing to discuss this with you. We will go as far as autonomy.

That's literally a quote he said, which is quite significant. Yeah, after seven years of basically stalemate through the politicians, so the youth in a way one of the very few examples of this, specifically in Europe. The youth, what they're doing kind of worked, you know what I mean, like direct action got got some goods, started the process of

getting the goods hopefully. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, it has. And the thing about the course scan youth is they're very intelligent, very they're very authentic in their political activism in the sense of it's just they're born into it. It's in them, you know, from the age of like twelve thirteen, they're understanding it. They're getting told about the legends of blah blah. You know, um, there's there's militant group and whatever whatever.

So there's very much in them in that sense, kind of in a you know, like the Kurds are kind of you know, not on the same level, but that kind of vibe. So when they go to students, when they go to UNI and they become students, they're not really forming their political opinions. They already have them, they already got them, and then they they sort of higher, they sort of germinate together. So that's from what I

understood anyway, that's from what I gathered. And you know, your average trendy young man and woman on the street. There is very political. It's kind of like Greece in that sense, like it's cool to be political, but in the sense of not the kind not like um, you know, not not something you brought into as a teenagers, something that was already there and then which which there's nothing wrong with it. You know. Most people fall in their political opinions in unis or whatever. But for them, it's

already in there, you see what I'm saying. So they already have They're already united in that sense, you know. So when they get to the UNI, they get there it's like, okay, well we all want independence or autonomy, but then the other things are lesser, so you know, for that in that really, in that sense, I think

that was quite interesting. And we saw eight thousand, nine thousand people marching maybe and then when the clashes started, you know, it is well, but like normally it's like what a hundred three people stay talking, like two thousand people help clashing, and men and women like young girls, young men, like many many, you know, So it was really I was like, wow, okay, and one one thing that I've never I haven't seen for a very long time.

I've very rarely seen it. Normally, when the clash happens, everybody you know, your grandma's, you're working man, you know, the people that support what's going on but are not able to clash or don't want to clash, they normally stay back. In the Corsican protests, everybody just stayed. Like we were getting tear gas next to like fifty lads with balaclabas on, next to like grandma or auntie, you know, and we're like helping people into the side street to

get away from tear gas. It's very weird. They just didn't leave. They just were there the whole time. It's weird when you're talking about like tactically, what is this, How are these kind of bombings being pulled? Arthurs? So you've got like this huge crowd and they're just kind of like marching from target to target. Um. So the youth are not really I mean, they have some small kind of I D s you know what I'm saying, that youth student youth protesters, but generally it's Molotov's bricks,

burning barricades. But they very clearly know the islands inside out. They know their streets, you know, obviously because they lived there and most of the police, from what I understand, are actually French called in from the island, from the mainland. Sorry to the ILA. A lot of the CRS riot police, thousands of them were brought in there was that they

were actually completely outnumbered. They had to retreat at one point in in the evening to go back to the prefecture kind of cultural French administrative building where the main the main target of violence was. They had to retreat to get more ammunition because they just they just shot so much tea gas um. They just couldn't, you know, they couldn't do anything. There were some teams like the youth.

Some of them had green arm bands or green leg bands, so they were very clearly like a different unit, and they were very well organized. They didn't have walkie talkies, mind you normally that that shows a closer sign of organization, but some of them were like that. Some of them were just turned up to fight, and some of them

were splitting off into different groups. You would see one come in, they'd fight, fight, fight, and then they'd leave, and as they're leaving, another load would just come in in the line. It was was really quite interesting. You know, they'd really thought about it. Um, it wasn't just a free for all, which it might look like. But you know, after a while of covering riots, there's certain things you notice where you're like, Okay, they're planning this, they're planning that,

you know what I'm saying. So it's quite interesting in that sense. Um, but yeah, man, it's yeah, that was a that was a youth fighting. Um, it did get messy. I think forty four police were injured, thirteen protesters and one pedestrian. That was the official figures. I saw at least three pedestrians injured, and I think probably more protesters and definitely more cops, I would say. Yeah. I mean obviously it also depends on like what you're raiding as

an injury for that sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah, And a lot of folks probably are avoiding the hospitals and being dealt with at homes and whatnot because they were committing some crimes. Yeah, just like you know at home with superglue and sort of stitches or whatever. Yeah. Um, do you have a sense of like how long? But the kind of the back end of this was the preparation and process was for this. Yeah, so the classes have been ongoing before we got there for about a week.

So even Colinar was beaten into this coma. He was he was attacked in prison. There's some rumors that he said some kind of Islamophobic thing to the inmate, and don't know how true that is, but all we know is the guy was actually a you know, convicted jahadist. It's not kind of his say that the guy the

inmate was a convicted jahadist. Because obviously even Colinar is in the type of prison where what the state says is terrorists are there, you know what I mean, anybody terrorists is there, So it makes sense he's amongst these people. And I think he was attacked in the gym when he was on his own and he was strangled, and this this is where yeah, yeah, this is where there's

a weird point of contention. He because of the special status he had as such a violent militant or whatever, he shouldn't have really been on his own like that. And some people were speculating did something happen, But generally most people we spoke to were like it was probably just negligence, you know, they weren't very conspiratory. There was someone like, oh, the French. The French plan is I doubt it. It doesn't make much sense to do this right now, Like you know, they would knew what would

happen to be on calling our to the people. Sorry if he's on Colling our wash because he's a big you know, a big name there. There's also some you know, maybe interesting arguments around the case, the way he was arrested. Apparently the gun doesn't match up. I don't know. I didn't really get into that. But either way, he's like a you know, people there love him, you know what

I'm saying. He's like a matter for them, even though you know he shot this guy in the back in in cold blood essentially, but for them that was a political assassination whatever. So so for about a week, the youth were fighting, and I saw a video and anything that happens in course, I'm right, I'm looking at it, and I was like, okay, this this is a little bit different. Okay, molotovs are out again. Hasn't haven't seen

that for a while. And then the next day and then the next day, and then it's had one night to like five different cities or like sorry, three different cities, like big, big places and then they burned like a very specific monument, so that was like, oh, it's on. So for at least a week they were they were planning something, you know, and there was enough kind of

um momentum there, I think for them to organize. Certainly, we know that there was people from a jat CEO of the capital city in Bastia where we filmed it, Like a lot of people drove in. They came, you know, specifically for this clash, so that was quite interesting. I think the youth movement have a very strong network there, and there's also quite a big football ultra scene there.

So the day before the clashes, Bastia and the JATSO had a derby, So obviously I imagine a lot of the ultras, or at least I know a lot of the ultras were also part of the independence groupings and part of the clashes, so I imagine that a lot of the football ultras kind of organized you know, you know, the the match the day before or at least a week before. So I think there was quite a lot of organization there. You know, what, do you feel like

it's next? Is this the case? Do you get the sense that because the government has announced their willingness to sit down and talk that maybe folks are gonna wait to follow up this or do you get the sense that they're going to kind of keep the pressure on. Well, the thing is, there was one option before Evan Colonard died, and now there's a new option that he's died. You see what I'm saying. Before, I think what you're saying

would have would have happened. I mean, I don't know, but I think that youth would have They would have held off the fact that the Interior Minister of France, who answers directly to mcron within one day or less than one day, said we're willing to go as far out autonomy in these discussions. Stop being violent. I think the youth was smart enough to realize, all right, let's stop, let's see what he's got to say. I'm sure if things faltered, if things didn't move quick enough, they would

have very quickly stepped up the stepped up the violence again. However, now that even Colin has died, I don't think that they're just gonna wait. Now. From what I understand from speaking to contacts and friends in Corsica, there's a period of mourning right now. You know his funeral. He died in a prison in Marseille. He wasn't even transferred to to Corsica to die, So for a lot of them, that's incredibly offensive. That's the kind of spark that started

these clashes. It's all about independence and autonomy on one level, but the thing that drove this and sparked it was even Colonize attack, and and the fact that there's a lot of course com prison prisoners, which are political prisoners,

are in prison in Frances at the Corsica anyway. So now that he has died, I really think that there will be a moment of calm due to the funeral and respect for Evan colin Arum whatever, and then I think maybe a week after this week, I think it's almost inevitable that we will see some form of violence again. I've spoken to some people that are maybe going a bit far, maybe being a bit dramatic, I don't know, but they speculate that there will be a little bit

more than just clashes. One one person I know said, I think they're going to blow something up again. Do I think that, probably not, But certainly when we were in the streets, they were using. There's there's photos of it as well. They were using very crude but very small, improvised explosive devices. Now, when a group even starts to do that, you know, okay, it's a very small device. It was in a kind of like a basically a tennis ball type thing with it with whatever in it.

But it was fucking loud. It wouldn't really do much unless it probably blow up right next to your foot. But when they're even considering that, in my experience, that tells you that people are there's an element that are ready to go further up the ladder to the next level. All does that mean they're gonna blow somewhere up? I don't know. I don't see it personally. You know, these

these young people are very clever. I think that would be in an insane decision because it would France would have no option but to basically flood the island with a lot more police and maybe even military type police. I don't know, maybe not, but but yeah, anyway, we'll

see what happens. But again, my point is not not that I think this is gonna happen, But there's that talk which we haven't seen that kind of talk in Corsica for quite a while, you know what I mean, And there's actually people now genuinely worried like Okay, where's this going to go? Which can never be a good thing.

I guess the French state really has to be careful here, and I think the fact they've now said we're gonna go as far as autonomy, maybe they at the very least have to be shown to be doing that very quickly, I think, you know. Otherwise, for a lot of people in Corsica, it's like even Colin Colinar died in Vain, I guess, and it's not just the youth, it's everybody, even people that perhaps I really don't like that the youth were fighting, really don't support that level of violence.

They still support Evan Coliner and a very sad he's dead, you see what I'm saying, and the way he died, And even even past DNFC, the football team and one of the main football teams in Courtsco, they said, are you know, we're very sad that he's dead. You know, hero has died that kind of thing, so he's a very He's seen as a Martineau definitely, Yeah, I mean that's a predictable outcome from killing the guys in prison. Um, right, right, right, right, So we're kind of in this like waiting to see

what the next step is. Then I guess, like the it's it's kind of this weird sort of like political liminal space. I guess where the next steps are. There's a number of things that could happen. Um, yeah, definitely, it's this very everything's in transition. It's it's very it's it's either car before the storm or it's calm that

turns into something positive. But I I just don't see, you know, after almost two weeks of extremely violent clashes, very well organized, after seeing them on the ground as well, these are brave lads, these and women as well. These are not your kind of average weekend warriors. They're very, very up for it. Um. You know how people clash in Paris, Like French people, they're very up as soon

as find they'll fight, you know. Um, it's like that times ten for from what I experienced, because it's got the the kind of incubated nationalist identity separate from France, but whilst also having kind of fiery French culture and fiery Italian culture influences and fiery Corsican culture. Um, not to say that they're not very nice people. Everyone was absolutely lovely, very very friendly, but you can tell they're you know, there are fiery people. They're active, they're about it,

they mean what they say. So I don't think that the youth will just go quietly from this essentially a political prisoner m A. Martin now, and then for them to just go, Okay, we'll just relax now. I don't see it. You go, you're talking from like you know, probably in the full week of clashes, maybe four or five thousand people together, throwing rocks, burning barricades, throwing small

improvised devices at cops. So then just to go to nothing after even Colinard dies, I would be very very surprised. I think the only way that that would happen would be for France to go, okay, here's your autonomy, and then that energy could be turned into a celebration what

I'm saying that should or shouldn't happen. I just think theoretically that's the only way that it could avoid violence, because the energy is there now, you see what I'm saying, not on like an essteric level, it's just the level of like they're revved up, they're ready, you know, in the attitude, the kind of it's in the air. It's

in the air right now. So you published just a couple of days ago, your a little documentary like short documentary from Popular front which has footage a little dispatch which has footage from this um, which people should definitely check out, especially if they'd like to see some of the tactics that we've talked about UM on this this episode so far. Is there anywhere else you might recommend they go for further reading on this subject UM, not not to be UM, oh you're only popular Front UM,

but we we have. It's just something that I've just been specifically fascinating and obsessed with for a long time. So when the time came, I was very well prepared.

Everyone has said like, oh, you know, this is this is crazy, like you know, how did you understand all of this so quickly, because I've been reading about it and and the problem with a lot of the French reporting is, you know, it's it's naturally very fresh, skewed, it's a little bit sneary, like all the island people are kicking off again, Whereas it's like no come on like this. It's an incredible beautiful place. Of course they want to preserve it. Of course they want to control

it in whatever way they want too. So again it's very difficult, but I will say that there are some really good reporters um there. There's a a friend of mine from Corsica, Lionel Doomus. He runs like a thing called um Corsican passport or were used to, which was kind of kind of humorous but at the same time in our news about kind of course and related um patriotic stuff. And then who we worked with, Jean Colinar.

He's not related to m Yvonne, like it's it's quite a you know, common common last yeah exactly, yeah, so us it sounds quite you know, right, you must be related, but over there it's like not smith, but you know it's quite common yea, um, so yeah. Jean Colinary's great. And there's also the local papers in Corsica course, Mattin. They're really good. You might have to translate stuff, but they're very on the ball, you know what I mean

that they're focused on everything. So if people are interested in it, honestly, I would say, like seek out local French reporters. From what I gather it as well, there's there's a quiet, but really thriving kind of youth media. I wouldn't say it's a it's a movement, but there's something growing there, you know. I spoke before I went out. I spoke to quite a few reporters, really nice people, really enthusiastic, really you know, love loving their island, but

not full of hatred or anything like that. That that's something that I've seen a lot of French people say, oh, Corsicans are really full of hatred, their racist, They're blah blah. And it's like, I didn't experience that. And at the same time, it's like, have you been to Paris, Yeah it's yeah, you know, like it's like the end of

the day. I think the whole region probably has a has an issue with that, but certainly the youth are very open minded, very nice um And like I said, this isn't just me basing it off of one trip. I've been fascinated with this place for about six to eight years and I I have not experienced anything like that. Sure you'll hear the old comment like you very yeah it's Europe, Yeah exactly, exactly Europe, not to minimize it, but like it just Corsica exactly whatever. Generally, you know,

for a small island, it could be way worse. And and so I had a lot of French people, like they're really nasty, they're really violent, and it's like they're not actually like they're very angry, but they don't hate. They don't hate the French in that sense of like, oh you're a French person, kill you. It's the same

thing as we hate the state, you know. Like and at the same time they have a very quite a few people brought up Ireland and the Basque situation and Sardinia, and so they have this they have an internationalist mentality as well. Actually, and in fact, years ago there used

to be a youth conference in Corsica hosted there. I don't think it goes on anymore, but it was hosted in Corsica by what was a very well organized radical socialist youth movement in Corsica, where people from northern Ireland, people from the Basque country, people from um, uh, what's

the one in Barcelona, Oh, um, Calonia, Catalonia. Yeah, people from there would come, you know, all people from different breakaway regions or whatever, and they would all come and they would all meet in Coursco and they would talk about tactics and politics and whatever. So it's a very very interesting culture place, amazing history. Fucking the Poland is from Napoleon is from there. You know that's what you want. Um.

So yeah, it's a really cool place. And you know, we only documented one side of it, a very radical side of it, because that's what was happening that weekend to dispatch. But there are a lot of moderates as well. There were a lot of like political, very smart political moderate moderates that are like, look, we don't want violence,

but we do want autonomy, we want something. And they, you know, they said, oh, you only showed the militant side of It's like, well, you weren't on the street that day, you know, these kids were, so obviously that's how it works. But yeah, I would to actually a question again. Sorry, I would say just if you're interested in the region, UM, check it out. And there's there's a film if you can find it in English subtitles, send it to me. But there's a fictionalized film about

the effllency. I think it's called a Life of Violence. Um, that's actually like quite good. It's a bit romantic size, but it's quite good in terms of explaining this situation there if you speak French. Checked that out and just check out like course Martin and all these these other kind of local reporters there. People are like, oh, it's too hard to find them. It does feel like that, but once you find them, you find them all. So yeah, awesome. Well,

Jake Canrahan, thank you so much. Check out the new Popular Front dispatch on Corsica. Um by the way to Yeah, so check out all the Popular Front stuff on YouTube. You've got a great documentary out also about the territorial defense militias in Ukraine that you're filmed right before ship went. Yeah you know where it is. Yeah, yeah, we're standing it because we're a bit like how do we how do we make this most relevant? But it's it's coming,

that's it will be quite excited. Yeah, the perspective beforehand. Yeah, the ship you're posting on Twitter was really interesting. Um so yeah, check that out when it's out. Check out all the Popular fronts other stuff. Um and yeah, thank you Jake. Let's uh well we'll have you back on soon all right, man. Thank you very much. It Could

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