The next day these attacks were claimed through an anonymous phone call and fliers were left on the streets of Ajaccio titled “The Manifesto of 5 May”.

The FLNC then began a harsh guerrilla campaign against the French government in Corsica, consisting of bombings, ambushes, robbery, kidnappings, and assassinations.

In separate incidents in the town of Corte, a general narrowly missed assassination when his car was riddled with bullets; his driver lost an ear in the attack.

The FLNC responded to the attacks on 24 May by carrying out a daring raid on the French army outpost at Fort-Lacroix, near Bastia, where eight armed militants blew up wireless facilities after subduing the sentries.

[14][15] On the night of 13 January 1978, nine armed militiamen wearing balaclavas stormed and bombed the French air base at Solenzara using 40 kg of explosives, in the so-called "Operation Zara".

[22] However, in July a number of their activists were captured and sentenced to long prison terms resulting in a lack of action or activity on the part of the FLNC.

The Front announced it would now launch a "new offensive in the liberation struggle" and advised Corsicans who were members of the police or Army to leave the island.

[24] The beginning of June saw the FLNC switch back to activities on the island itself with twenty-five major explosions coupled with a car bomb attack on the Police Headquarters in Paris.

On 14 May 1980 the FLNC bombed the Law Courts in Paris and also carried out a machine-gun attack on four gendarmes who were guarding the Iranian embassy, wounding three.

[28] Following this, the FLNC began extensive talks with the Mitterrand government, resulting in the new “Territorial Collectivity of Corsica” and the establishment of a university on the island.

On 18 September the FLNC announced the end of its ceasefire at a press conference held in the mountains of central Corsica.

On 19 August 1982 the FLNC launched its most spectacular night of violence with the so-called "violente nuit bleue", during which 99 attacks were carried out against government targets.

It is alleged that the Valinco gang had a series of backroom dealings with French authorities in order to kill Guy Orsoni.

The FLNC, during a press conference, cites the inability and supposed unwillingness of French authorities to catch the perpetrators as evidence of a conspiracy.

Meanwhile, other small groups such as the radical anti-drug and anti-mafia “A Droga Basta” began to form, carrying out attacks and guerrilla campaigns that typically got overshadowed by the sheer scale of the FLNC’s.

[36] In January 1991 the FLNC-CS struck closer to the heart of the government with the kidnapping of the head of the Corsican Economic Commission, Aurélien Garcia.

On 3 January 1991, François Mitterrand and the French Communist Party began an inquiry into the political violence in Corsica after the assassination of multiple high-ranking officials in the years of 1989-1991.

By the end of the inquiry, a new prefect, hardline French unionist Bernard Bonnet is placed in charge of Corsica.

The government of Bonnet is regarded by many to be corrupt and dictatorial, and he is the only French prefect in history to be removed from office following an affair in which two businesses are burned down via his orders and blamed on the FLNC.

On 8 January 1991, the FLNC-CA declared a halt on military actions against the French government as the leadership took a turn to combat the ongoing civil war within the FLNC.

On 31 March Resistenza committed a large-scale operation in Porticcio in protest of the French Senate’s opposition to a proposed reform law that recognizes a Corsican people.

On 15 June An FLNC-CA member is the target of an attempted assassination, and his furniture store is racked with machine gun fire.

[38] On 1 August 1992, the FLNC-CA holds a meeting in an occupied area outside of the town of Corte, where they announce that they will be escalating the war with the mafia if they further attempt to cement themselves into positions of power.

The attack was highly publicized and criticized so strongly by the locals that the FLNC were forced to deny that they were responsible,[41] while consensus for independence reached an all-time low among the population (6%).

Many of the feuding factions, who had issues with Santoni, came together to combat the rapidly growing Armata Corsa and formed the FLNC-Union of Combattants (FLNC-UC).

"[44] In June 2014, the FLNC-UC announced the cessation of the armed struggle, stating that the Front has "decided to engage unilaterally in a process of demilitarisation and a progressive exit from clandestinity.

"[45][46] On 3 May 2016, the FLNC-22 announced that they will "end military operations" by October 2016, following the lead of the FLNC-UC, in order to allow the island's new assembly, led by nationalists, "to fulfil its mandate calmly".

[citation needed] Then, just three days before the arrival of President Emmanuel Macron, two homemade explosive devices were found in front of government buildings in Bastia.

[50] At the end of September 2019, a group of Corsican nationalists, one of which was armed, announced the revival of the FLNC in a video message.

The group claimed a shooting incident at the Montesoro Gendarmerie in Bastia and left a leaflet demanding mandatory Corsican language education beginning in kindergarten and limitation of tourists to twice the island's population during busy months.