(AFP) - Two bomb attacks rocked the Corsican capital of Ajaccio on Sunday, slightly injuring two people including a five-year-old child, security sources said.
The bombs detonated almost simultaneously outside the treasury building and a police barracks before dawn. Neither of the two victims were seriously hurt.
French Interior Minister Michele Alliot -Marie condemned the "cowardly acts which show a total disregard for the values of the republic to which the vast majority of Corsicans are attached."
The treasury building was seriously damaged while the bomb placed against the wall of the barracks left an elderly woman with glass cuts and the child with concussion.
"You can count on my determination to do all that I can to identify the people behind this attack and bring them to justice," the minister added.
The blasts were the second bomb attack on the French Mediterranean island in less than a week.
Bombs exploded outside a government office and police headquarters on Thursday, injuring one person.
Police have been on alert for violence from Corsican separatists since the sentencing earlier this month of Yvan Colonna, 47, for killing Claude Erignac , the state-appointed prefect or governor of Corsica, in February 1998.
The murder of the prefect was by far the most serious act of violence in some 30 years of generally low-level separatist attacks on the island.
