-Caveat Lector-
"Members of a French ANTI-terrorism squad and a local chief of police
have been arrested on charges with carrying out a terrorist attack on their
'enemy' ..."
Fighting fire with fire ...
French Official Detained in Corsica
AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) -- France's top official in Corsica, Bernard Bonnet,
was taken into custody today as part of the investigation into the
firebombing of a Corsican restaurant, judicial officials said.
Earlier, police raided Bonnet's offices on this Mediterranean Island.
Officials would not say why Bonnet was taken into custody.
In Paris, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin asked President Jacques Chirac to
dismiss Bonnet. Bonnet's cabinet chief, Gerard Pardini, also was placed in
custody.
The April 20 attack destroyed ``Chez Francis'' on a beach near Ajaccio,
Corsica's capital. The restaurant is said to have been a favorite hangout for
nationalists. There were no casualties.
Three members of a French anti-terrorism squad have been placed under
investigation, along with Col. Henri Mazeres, head of police in Corsica, on
charges of carrying out the attack.
A lawyer for one of the three officers said Monday his client was ordered to
carry out the attack.
``He deliberately started the fire ... but it wasn't a spontaneous act,''
Emmanuel Saint-Lanne, lawyer for Capt. Norbert Ambrosse, told reporters after
his client was questioned for five hours by an investigating judge.
Referring to all three officers, Saint-Lanne said they ``would have been
threatened if they hadn't carried out the mission.''
``The three men have been exploited by their immediate superior,'' he said,
referring to Mazeres.
Corsican officials are demanding urgent answers from Paris, and the leftist
government of Lionel Jospin has come under mounting pressure to explain the
role of the officers in the firebombing.
The anti-terrorism squad was created last year in the wake of the
assassination of Claude Erignac, France's prefect on the island. Bonnet was
then appointed as his successor with orders to clamp down on corruption.
Nationalists in Corsica have waged a 23-year campaign of bombings against
public buildings and French businesses, demanding greater autonomy or even
independence.
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