Yvan Colonna: A judicial information will be open, his family denounces “dysfunctions”

The Family of the Corsican Independent Activist, in the coma from aggression by a co-seedy, will be attentive in the instruction for “attempt of assassination in relation to a terrorist company”.

Le Monde with AFP

The guard of Yvan Colonna’s abuser was lifted on Sunday, March 6, for indicning. Judicial information will be open for “assassination attempt in relation to a terrorist company” and “Association of Terrorist Croporing”, announced Jean-François Ricard, the national anti-terrorist prosecutor at a press conference.

The parquet floor will require the indicting Franck Elong Abé, 35, and its placement in remand, reported Jean-François Ricard, who pointed out that it was the “fifth” terrorist crime committed in A penitentiary establishment in France since 2016. Yvan Colonna, convicted for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac in 1998, was serving his sentence at Arles Prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) when he was assaulted by strangulation attempt Then choking, in the prison gym.

The investigation will focus on “tracing with the greatest minutia the detention course” of the aggressor, “determine all of its contacts, particularly among people sharing its ideology” and “clarify any interactions ( …) likely to have played a role in facts, “said Ricard.

He confirmed that Franck Elong Abé, who was serving several penalties of which one of nine years for “merciful association for the preparation of an act of terrorism”, had during his custody explained his act “by What he considered blasphemies “uttered in recent months by Yvan Colonna.

The latter would have declared a few days before the aggression he “spat on God, according to Mr. Ricard. Retling minute per minute The course of the aggression Wednesday morning, the prosecutor stated that “the systematic relentlessness deployed by the implicer” left that little doubts about his homicide intent “.

Demonstration Sunday

The life of the Corsican Independent Activist, which has been since in the coma, is at this time “always engaged”, also reported Mr. Ricard. His family will be caught in the instruction and claims that “the investigation highlights multiple administrative dysfunctions”. “The national anti-terrorist prosecutor does not provide any answer to Yvan Colonna’s family,” lamented the family lawyer, Patrice Spinosi, in a statement forwarded to the France-Presse Agency (AFP).

“There is no mention of the faults of monitoring of the penitentiary administration or the reasons for the absence of any reaction of the supervisors for the more eight minutes of the aggression, which was nevertheless filmed,” a -T he pursued. “It is not more explained how an inmate to the profile as dangerous as Franck Elong Abé has been able to benefit from a job of auxiliary and have been able to remain without any supervision with Yvan Colonna,” said Mr. Spinosi.

“She will seek by any means of the right to obtain that the investigation highlights the multiple administrative dysfunctions that led to this drama,” he added. A manifestation of support for the Corsican militant is scheduled Sunday afternoon in Corte.

/Media reports.