Two days after the aggression in prison in Yvan Colonna, a confidential note urgently calls for additional means before a scheduled event Sunday.
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Failure to be able to accoster in Corsica, the CRS will take the plane. While STC’s sailors (Corsican Worker Syndicate, Nationalist) blocked Friday, March 4th the arrival of a ferries’ Corsica ship with gendarmes on board, the Ministry of the Interior has decided to transfer the expected reinforcements On the island by air.
Workforce of a CRS company in the south of France must land at the Bastia-Portetta airport (Haute-Corse), due to the risks of disorders after the aggression of which was victimized Yvan Colonna, 61, sentenced in 2011 for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, occurred on February 6, 1998, in Ajaccio. Wednesday, March 2, the former nationalist activist has been violently spent tobacco by Franck Elong Abé, an ex-jihadist aged 36, in the gym of the central house of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône). The latter, heard by the Marseille Judicial Police evoked religious motives to justify his passage to the act, Yvan Colonna having, according to his state-of-sight statements, “insulted” God.
For forty-eight hours, Corsica stands quiet. But the State services fear overflowing with the appeal to protest by the whole nationalist family, Sunday, March 6 at 2:30 pm in Corte (Haute-Corse), in the center of the island. In an internal note that Le Monde was able to consult, the Departmental Directorate of Public Security of Haute-Corse (DDSP2B) is alarmed with an “unprecedented here for twenty years”.
Anger of nationalist activists
If the formula may seem excessive, it reflects the concern of the security forces. Since the aggression of Yvan Colonna, elements of the Mobile Gendarmerie Squadron of Chauny (Hauts-de-France) won Corsica from Thursday, March 3, a decision that sparked the anger of nationalist activists who denounce ” additional provocation “. “There was not a stuff to monitor the physical integrity of a man supposed to be isolation. On the other hand, in the same day, there are 200 crs to send them to Corsica,” said Alain Mosconi, head of the STC-sailors, in Franceinfo’s microphone.
The note established by the DDSP2B evokes a risk of amplification of the “perceptible voltage level”, which is already “mounted of a notch” from the new of the known Yvan aggression. “We are not the shelter to be collectively confronted with isolated or collective acts leading to high-intensity urban violence,” says the document, which urgently claims human and material resources. “We alerted Paris and Marseille (…) but also the prefectural authorities on our disability with our current ways to deal with a high-intensity commitment.” Police officers call for 40 additional armored helmets, grenades “of all models” and 60 tear gas aerosols but also protective plates adapted to maintaining order and lots of decontaminant product.
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