Armata Corsa (literally "Corsican Army") was an underground separatist terrorist organization in Corsica,[1] founded in 1999 and disbanded around 2001.
Its suspected leaders, François Santoni and Jean-Michel Rossi, allegedly resigned from another organization National Liberation Front of Corsica (FLNC) the previous year to form their own group.
The first acts of terrorism the group claimed responsibility for were five bomb attacks against Departmental Amenities Directorate (DDE) buildings in Ajaccio, Calvi, Corte, Porto-Vecchio and Sartène.
In August 2000, Jean-Michel Rossi and his bodyguard were killed in the Corsican town of L'Île-Rousse; AC claimed that rival nationalists were responsible.
They threatened to attack targets in continental France if the police would not swiftly produce results, but the threat has not been carried out.