The demise of Dominique Bucchini, a distinguished determine within the Communist Party in Corsica | EUROtoday

He knew easy methods to embrace with the identical ardour a Marxist political speech, the poems of Louis Aragon or the outdated Corsican songs. Dominique Bucchini’s voice fell silent on January 2, in Sartène, a city in Southern Corsica of which he had been mayor and which in his eyes represented “the center of the world”. He was 82 years previous.

The lifetime of this communist activist, adorned within the columns of World of the title of “Corsican Don Quixote”has been nothing however an uninterrupted battle. A instructor, he took his first place in Vendée in 1964 the place he taught for 3 years earlier than becoming a member of Senegal as an help employee. A seasoned footballer, Dominique Bucchini will take a workforce of highschool college students concerned within the native second division championship distant. “One of my most beautiful human adventures”he confided, in the course of the interviews he gave to the press, mixing soccer, Corsican tales and people of the celebration. Having criticized the intervention of a Senegalese official in the course of the group of the baccalaureate, the younger instructor was expelled for “attack on state security”in 1971, the 12 months he joined the French Communist Party (PCF).

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