Corsican Separatists Kill Police Officer
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AJACCIO, Corsica — Suspected Corsican separatist guerrillas in a fast-moving car sprayed a police barracks with automatic weapons fire and hurled a grenade at the building Tuesday, fatally wounding a policeman, police said.
The attack on the Battesti police barracks in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio occurred shortly after militants of the clandestine National Front for the Liberation of Corsica told a news conference that they will step up their campaign for greater autonomy for the French-administered Mediterranean island.
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