This blocking follows the violent aggression in Yvan Colonna prison, convicted for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac. A demonstration is planned in Corte, in Haute-Corse, Sunday.
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The Mega-Express finally lifted the anchor at 7:30 pm, Friday, March 4, in the dark night. The ten soldiers and the five white gendarmerie trucks on board could not put the foot in Corsica. The Corsica Ferries liner took over the sea for Toulon without landing the police sent in reinforcement by Paris, for the planned events on Sunday following the aggression of Yvan Colonna, sentenced to perpetuity imprisonment for The assassination of Claude Erignac. “The trucks were transporting the equipment of a gendarmerie squadron dedicated to getting around, but no floor logistics”, specifies a police source.
The agreement negotiated on the phone The same morning between the préfecture of Corsica and Alain Mosconi, the boss of STC Marins, the majorist nationalist trade union of companies serving Corsica, has been respected. STC, who had called upon his activists and sympathizers to block the arrival of the Mega-Express at the Port of Ajaccio, in South Corse, had warned the prefecture that he would disembark passengers and freight trucks If mobile gendarmes resumed broad.
After eight hours spent in harvest, the ferry finally accomodated Friday at 2 pm On the wharf, about fifty nationalist protesters (many young people with black cups) had tagged twenty-year-old words that announced the color: “Gloria to Tè, Yvan.” The ramp dropped to the screams of “Status Francese Assassinu “(” ASSASSIN FRENCH STATE “), Slogan in vogue in the 1990s and resurrected for a few days, especially on the Facebook and Instagram profiles of independence activists. The small troupe of protesters also tagged it in the ship’s shim.
“Restore a dialog”
“We worked to find a solution”, confirms the world Amaury of Saint-Quentin, the new prefect of Corsica. “The priority, for me, was that passengers land, and without violence. I was very attached in this particular context of tensions and emotion,” adds the representative of the State, who took his post on the island with four days ahead of the official date. “I want to restore a dialogue with Gilles Simeoni,” the prefect insists – the nationalist president of the Corsican executive confirms a “cordial” telephone interview. An allusion to the bad relations maintained by his predecessor, Pascal Lelarge, with the nationalist president of the executive, the true “boss” of Corsica, but also the former lawyer of Yvan Colonna.
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