Ajaccio: an explosive device explodes in front of the headquarters of the shipping company Corsica Linea

An “explosive charge” went off on the night of Wednesday November 4 to Thursday November 5 in front of the headquarters of the shipping company Corsica Linea in Ajaccio, damaging the facade and two vehicles parked nearby, the Ajaccio prosecutor said on Thursday. The events took place around 2 a.m. and an investigation into destruction by dangerous means was opened and entrusted to the police, said Fanny Floquet, public prosecutor of Ajaccio.

This is light damage with a broken bay window and two damaged vehicles, indicates a source close to the matter who adds that this event takes place “in a context of union conflict”, but “that such a conflict results in a surge of pressure of this nature would still be new”. Contacted by AFP, the company indicated that it did not wish to communicate.

At the beginning of October, the company's boats were blocked in Marseille for several days by a strike launched by the seafarers' CGT which criticized the management of Corsica Linea for the "ubiquitous choice" of chartering the Massalia boat - owned by Méridionale (CMA CGM group) - instead of a Corsica Linea ship, on lines linking two Corsican ports (Propriano and Île Rousse) to Marseille.

The Corsican consortium CM Holding, owner of the Corsica Linea, had expressed its exasperation at “one blockage too many”, denouncing “untruths” and announcing “to suspend the entire activity of the company”, during the weekend, the time to “evaluate the form that their possible future commitment in the Corsica Linea will take.” CM Holding then announced on Monday the resumption of activity, ensuring that “new bases for social dialogue in the company, based on responsibility, mutual respect and continuity of service provided to Corsica” had been laid.

The CGT of sailors, for its part, had specified that the management wanted to review two company agreements: “they affect the agreements which govern the right to organize in the company, in fact they attack the unions”, summarized the CGT delegate Frédéric Alpozzo. The CGT had called on management “to resume a real social dialogue within the framework of our bodies with the social and economic committee (CSE) and beyond with our majority union within Corsica Linea.”