Quai Jérôme Comparetti

Jérôme Comparetti joined the Reacute;sistance corse. He continued his clandestine activities in Alta-Rocca, Levie, Carbini, Col de Bacinu. He was captured by the Italians, but he escaped. He was recaptured by the Black Shirts while he was transporting weapons during the fighting in Levi. He was shot down between Carbini and Orone, by the Italians or the Germans to whose hands he would have been handed over.

Recognized dead for France à military title, Jérôme Comparetti was homologated as a deporté and interné of the Resistance and FFI. He received the medal of the Resistance posthumously. His name appears on the war memorials of Bonifacio. In this commune, a commemorative plaque and a quay honor his memory. A commemorative statue has been dedicated to him, on the left side of the road coming from Orone. Jérôme Comparetti is buried in the marine cemetery of Bonifacio. On August 30, 1943, the special delegation of Bonifacio decided to give his name to one of the streets of the township.