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Léo Battesti | |
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 Battesti in 2012 | |
| Vice-President of theFrench Chess Federation | |
| Assumed office January 2005 | |
| President | Éloi Relange |
| Member of theCorsican Assembly | |
| In office 1986–1992 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1953-11-06)6 November 1953 (age 72) |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | National Liberation Front of Corsica |
| Years of service | 1976 – 1992 |
| Battles/wars | Corsican conflict |
Léo Battesti (born 6 November 1953) is aCorsican chess enthusiast, activist, and retired politician and militant.
Léo Battesti was born inBastia. He earned a Master of Law atUniversité Paris-Sorbonne. He served as General Secretary of Corsican Students (CSC) from 1976 to 1978, inNice.
Battesti was a founding member of theNational Liberation Front of Corsica, a year after having partaken in theAleria standoff in 1975. He was imprisoned atLa Santé Prison from 1978 to 1981 for his militant activities, and developed a fascination with chess after overhearing two imprisonedKGB spies playing it in morse code. He was amnestied in 1981 by PresidentFrançois Mitterrand[1]
Léo Battesti was jailed again in 1984 with Alain Orsoni because they publicly supported the commando of three FLNC militants (Pantaléon Alessandri, Pierre Albertini, Bernard Pantalacci) who went into Aiacciu's prison from the outside to kill two mobsters who tortured and killed Alain Orsoni's brother and militant of FLNC, Guy Orsoni, whose body was never found. They were the only convicted for "apology of crime" in France after 1945.[2]
He was elected to theCorsican Assembly twice, in 1986 and 1988, and served until 1992.
He served as a member of the political branch of the FLNC : theMuvimentu Corsu per l'Autodeterminazione [fr][3] dissolved by the french state for "connection with a terrorist organization" in 1987 and then
A Cuncolta Naziunalista,.[4]
When the FLNC splits into FLNC-Canal Habituel and his political branch MPA with the newspaper Paese and FLNC-Canal Historique who kept A Cuncolta and U Ribombu, Léo Battesti joined the MPA and became one of the leaders of the party as he was already before in the MCA and ACN in the 80s.
In his capacity as a member of the Corsican Assembly, was vice-president of the Culture and Sports Commission from 1990 to 1992. He was also Bastia town council member from 1988 to 1992.
He was chief editor of the nationalist corsican newspaper, supportive of the FLNC, U Ribombu in the 1980s then worked for Paese with (the newspaper of the MPA party, closed to FLNC-Canal Habituel) and then Agora (a newspaper created by the left-wing of the MPA who splited in 1992 : Léo Battesti, Yves Stella, Jean-Paul Calendini, Marie-France Giovanangeli, Antoine Verdi, the last three were key members of the nationalist workers union STC in the 1980s).
In 1992, Léo Battesti condemned officially political violence and asked FLNC-Canal Habituel to dissolve. That's why he split off the MPA because the majority of the MPA wanted to continue the armed struggle. Actually, the faction who really wanted to continue the armed struggle split off the MPA in 1996 to found Corsica Viva and his armed branch the FLNC of the 5 May. FLNC-Canal Habituel dissolved itself in 1997 and the MPA in 1999. Alain Orsoni abandoned politics and exiled to Latin America in 1997.
He is vice-president ofFrench Chess Federation[5] since January 2005, in charge of communication and thus, chief-editor of the quarterly "Échec & Mat".
On 16 June 2012, Battesti launched a bid to the election of the Presidency of the French Chess Federation.[6] This bid sparked a debate on one side with a certain enthusiasm from aficionados who are amazed by the spectacular success of chess in Corsica.Whose dithyrambic échecsinfos.com[7]And on the other side, measured circumspection, which worries about a democratic deficit for some time in the organs of the FFE directional.With for example the blog of Christophe Bouton: échecs 64.[8]A decision also shows the extreme delicacy of Mr. Leonard Battesti regarding conflict resolution has been given in the last international open chess Corsica in 2011 and led to the exclusion of Iranian player; Ghaem Maghami that refused to play against an Israeli player ...A summary of the event at chess vibes.[9]And a comment bittersweet by Steve Giddin on his chess blog.[10]
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