France, Nov. 20 -- Under the slogan "Assassins, mafiosi, get out", between 1,700 (according to police) and 3,000 people (according to the organisers) took to the streets of Ajaccio and Bastia, the island's two largest cities.

A second banner, written in Corsican, proclaimed "A maffia tomba, U silenziu dino" - "The mafia kills, silence kills too".

Other banners paid tribute to Pierre Alessandri, secretary-general of the Via Campagnola agricultural union who was murdered in March, nine days after he took part in the island's firstanti-mafia demonstration,and to Massimu Susini, an environmental activist who was shot dead in front of his beach hut in September 2019. 'We are defenceless'

The marches were in response to a call for action fro...