Former president of the French football club Ajaccio, Alain Orsoni, was shot dead during his mother's funeral, France 24 reports. Earlier, the owner of the football club, where Oleksandra Khatskevich worked as the head coach, was killed.
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The tragedy occurred the day before in the village of Verreaux, 30 km east of Ajaccio, the capital of the French island.
“It was a moment of sorrow and mourning. Suddenly we heard a shot and Alain fell dead,” said Francis Roger Polge, the priest who conducted the service .
“He received a gunshot wound from long range,” said prosecutor Nicolas Sept. Apparently, a sniper was at work.
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Orsoni, 71, led the separatist movement “Corsican Movement for Self-Determination”, which the French police considered the legal wing of the armed organization of the Corsican National Liberation Front – the “Traditional Wing”.
Authorities have linked the organization to a series of attacks on the island in the 1990s, some of which the group claimed responsibility for. Orsoni was also charged, convicted and later pardoned in the 1980 machine-gun attack on the Iranian embassy in Paris.
Alain Orsoni was the manager of Ajaccio Football Club in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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Alain Orsoni with legendary Mexican national team goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa, who played for Ajaccio
Previously, “FACTS” reported that in Russia, the European boxing champion died in a terrible car accident while returning from his mother's funeral.
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