According to our information, the suspect of the guiller’s aggression of the Prefect Erignac, which had come today, provoked several serious incidents in other prisons. An investigation was opened for “attempt of assassination”.
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The scene, icing, of a rare violence even behind the bars, was fully filmed by the video surveillance device of the central house of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône). Wednesday morning March 2, Franck Elong Abé, 36, sentenced in 2015 for facts of jihadism, is accompanied by supervisors to clean up the housekeeping room of the penitentiary establishment, a work for which this “auxiliary” is paid by the administration. As soon as the door is closed, he rushed to Yvan Colonna, 61 years old, sentenced to the perpetual criminal imprisonment for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998, jumps joints on the back of his codéri, the wheel of blows Fist before crushing the trachea for more than a minute with his foot. After that, it covers the head of his victim with a plastic bag.
Very seriously injured, the Corsican detainee was transferred to a Marseille hospital, his vital prognosis is engaged. “Yvan Colonna is in a post-anoxic coma,” according to M e Emmanuel Mercrinier-Pantalacci, one of his lawyers.
The news has caused the stupor at the very summit of the penitentiary administration, to the point of triggering a crisis meeting in particular of Naoufel Gied, head of the mission to combat violent radicalization of the prison administration. Because, beyond the personality of the victim, independent activist convicted for assassination but detained model since his incarceration in July 2003, that of his aggressor asks at least as much as the circumstances of the aggression and his prisoner for the least chaotic .
“A rather lonely prisoner”
Born in Cameroon but having spent a part of his youth in Normandy, Franck Elong Abe was taken prisoner by the American troops in Afghanistan in 2012 before being imprisoned in the Bagram prison, nicknamed the “Guantanamo of the East “. Delivered to the French authorities two years later, it is sentenced in 2015 to nine years’ imprisonment for “Association of Cropleurs for the preparation of an act of terrorism”.
M e Benoît David, his lawyer, said “extremely surprised” to the announcement of the aggression, evoking “a more lonely prisoner, who does not mix with others, In no case a difficult or aggressive customer “.
“cordial and pleasant” with his lawyer, Franck Elong Abé has, however, experienced a detention marked by so violent episodes that the prison administration had not considered it useful to make him transit by a district of radicalization assessment (QER), even though he was incarcerated in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais), one of seven prison institutions with such a unit. Usually, this type of “favor” is reserved for prisoners considered unrecoverable because of their high degree of dangerousness or their very affirmed tendencies to proselytism with other detainees. This is the case, in particular, from Salah Abdeslam, the only survivor of the commando of the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris.
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