“We are dealing with a ghost, accustomed to living in hiding”: the story behind the five years on the run of the Corsican fugitive, Mickaël Ettori

Did he end up giving up, letting himself slip without resistance into the hands of the elite gendarmerie unit, exhausted by 1902 days of uninterrupted on the run? Or was he, on the contrary, sleeping the sleep of the righteous, between his fourteen cell phones, always with him, and his wig, ready to be put on at the slightest alert? Whatever the circumstances of his arrest, before falling, Mickaël Ettori will have wandered investigators for five years, until he became the “priority objective” of justice and the Research Section (S.R.) of Corsica.

Saturday December 13, 2025, four in the morning. In the premises of the Sartène gendarmerie (South Corsica), the GIGN receives the latest instructions from the Observation and Surveillance Group (GOS) - the elite unit experienced in intelligence and surveillance. The men of the intervention force are preparing to attack an old sheepfold converted into a vacation rental, away from the village of Olmeto...