The Corsican Corsica Linea and Southern Trade Union, Competitors from Corsica Ferries, accuse the company to transport police reinforcements on the island, theater of supportive manifestations in Yvan Colonna.
Le Monde with AFP
The Corsican Workers’ Union (CSC) of the Maritime Corsica Linea and Southern Traveling, Friday, March 4, for 7 hours, the ajaccio’s docking of a ship from their competitor Corsica Ferries. They accuse the company to transport police reinforcements on the island, which the authorities denied.
Events have taken place in Corsica after the aggression on Wednesday by one of his codeconus of the Independent activist Yvan Colonna, in the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) where he served a sentence for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac in 1998.
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The ferry, which was to land at 7 o’clock from the port of Toulon, is stopped in the Gulf of Ajaccio, at a hundred meters from the wharf, found a journalist from the France-Presse agency (AFP). “For now the ship can not enter the port,” said Corsica Ferries CEO AFP Pierre Mattei.
“Express their solidarity” with Yvan colonna
There are “more than 250 people on board, one dozen members of the police,” he added, stating that it was the end of the school holidays in Corsica and that there is had many people returning from leave to this ferry.
“The prefect regrets this movement of claim since the transport in question concerns gendarmerie vehicles as part of a regular logistics transport, without reinforcing workforce or order maintenance material in the boat”, indicated At AFP the prefecture, stating that there were only five vehicles with their driver. “The priority is to allow the disembarkation of the passengers to prevent that they remain blocked on board longer. The discussions are underway on this subject.”
The STC of the two companies had called Thursday night in a statement “the set of sympathizers, adherents and activists to mobilize widely” to “hinder the landing of repressive troops on the island” and “express His solidarity “with Yvan Colonna and his family. About fifty stc members were present on the port for the operation.
Corsica Linea denounces a “commercial operation”
Alain Mosconi, representative STC of Corsica Linea, told AFP that the vessel “will not give”, accusing without name Corsica ferries to “make a commercial operation” by carrying members of the forces of the Order.
Interrged on the number of members of the police on board, the trade unionist responded “having no accurate idea but there are some and even if there would be only one person, that would be a person too much “.
A lifeboat with stc members on board “prevents him from docking”, and with also people at the dock, “said Alain Mosconi.