The Corsican prisoner is between life and death. In July 2012, he had been sentenced to life prison for the assassination of the Prefect, Claude Erignac, in 1998.
Le Monde with AFP
Yvan Colonna was seriously injured, Wednesday, March 2, by another inmate in Prison d’Arles, learned Le Monde of police source confirming Information from BFM-TV . His life is in danger, said this source.
The facts took place in the promenade court, when an inmate, for reasons that are not yet known, violently strangled Yvan Colonna. According to our information, the suspect is a former jihadist in Afghanistan, of French nationality.
The Corsican prisoner had been definitely sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2012 for the assassination in 1998 of the Prefect Claude Erignac in Corsica.