{
  "id": 2671764,
  "title": "Mafias in Corsica use arson to tighten grip on local economy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/mafias-in-corsica-use-arson-to-tighten-grip-on-local-economy",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-22T22:49:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/23/mafias-in-corsica-use-arson-to-tighten-grip-on-local-economy_6756769_7.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Hotels, restaurants and businesses have increasingly become targets of deliberate destruction, such as the fire that gutted a beach bar overnight between August 10 and 11 in Ajaccio. Prosecutors have tried to curb the phenomenon, but identifying those behind the attacks has proved difficult.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}