Corsica: “responsibility” of French state denounced

Gatherings took place, Wednesday, March 2, in several cities. The emotion is lively, while the “rapprochement” of the corsican detainees has been asked for a long time.

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In front of the region’s prefecture in Ajaccio, Wednesday, March 2nd, was held a kind of funeral vigil, even though Yvan Colonna’s state of health was always judged “critical” after aggression. At around 18:30, at the call of nationalist parties, some 300 activists converged to the Lantivy Palace, whose grids had been carefully padlocked to prevent any incursion.

Candles were lit and arranged on the bars, while a fire declared himself on the pavement of the Napoleon course, the main artery, a time cut off to traffic. Although the event went in the early evening in the calm – as well as in Bastia or Corte or had the same gatherings – a man shouting “St. Francese Assassinu” (“The French state is assassin”) has some little broke the gravity of the moment.

This slogan found itself in the day on some social networks favorable to nationalists. He expressed a feeling of cold anger, which was read on the faces, and in particular on that of Gilles Simeoni, the president of the executive council of Corsica, which was part of the gathering. “It’s a huge sadness, I think of him, his family, but next to it is a deep feeling of anger and injustice,” said Simeoni, who was the lawyer of Yvan Colonna.

“It’s premeditated”

“This is a prison allegedly secure: how could we murder a defenseless man? Beyond these disturbance circumstances, the state has a primary, overwhelming responsibility, in what happened , because if he had applied the right and closer Yvan Colonna, that would not have happened, “said Simeoni.

At his side were the ban and the backben of the nationalist family, disunate since the victory of the autonomists of June 2021. “This helps to raise sad memories and the darkest hours of our history, c is very violent, “said Marie Antoinette Maupertuis, the president of the Corsica Assembly. The very morning she held a press conference to greet the forty years of the status of Deperre, which, on March 2, 1982, included in the marble the first step towards decentralization.

“It’s premeditated and the state has let it do”, has been carried away in the crowd an independent activist, predicting the return of political violence, while two discreet public safety cars blocked the road to allow The gathering that eventually dispersed smoothly.

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