Corte, Corsica, several thousand protesters “in support of Yvan Colonna”

The parade brought together militant circles and elected autonomists or independentists, but also many young people, who denounced the responsibility of the state in the aggression of the inmate, who is still in the coma. Clashes between the police and the protesters made 28 wounded.

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Young boys, very young, with mountains and anti-covid masks. Girls, many girls, who wear throughout the roadbread of the procession and burst: “Status Francese Assassinu!” (“Assassin French State!”). It is behind this warrior slogan of the 1990s that several thousand people (4,200 according to the police, 15,000 according to the organizers), “never-seen in Corte since chandeliers”, parade, Sunday, March 6, in the narrow streets of the sub-prefecture of Haute-Corse, “in support of Yvan Colonna and his family”.

This generation was not born when the Prefect Claude Erignac was murdered in February 1998 and that 30,000 corsicas scored, collapsed, in the streets of Ajaccio and Bastia. It is, however, this youth, via the three university unions at the University of Corsica, who beat the reminder. She grew up the rhythm of Yvan Colonna’s Cavale, her three trials, her sentence to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect, and, now, of her incomprehensible aggression on March 2 in the room. Gym from the Centrale d’Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), by a codéráte, which plunged it into the coma. The family colonna, absent from the parade, had made known that it was associated with it “by the thought”.

Yvan Colonna’s “stationary status but gravissime” and the conditions of his tobacco passage were at the center of the conversations between the station of Corte, rallying point of the parade, and the course Paoli, the main artery of the city student.

“State scandal”

“You realize, eight minutes have happened before the rescue intervenes with him … when we know like me the central Arles, his very secure organization is im-pos-sible … There is the state scandal. It will be necessary to provide precise answers, “accuses the nationalist deputy of Haute-Corse Jean-Félix Acquaviva, 48, who finds this Sunday in the street the perfume of his years of student syndicalist. “I visited him on January 21, entrusts the other member from Haute-Corse, the nationalist Michel Castellani. He explained to me that he was four hours of sports a day, that he passed the rest time in the books and had even plunged into Nietzsche reading, and that he did not seek anyone … “

The parade has mostly gathered activist circles and elected officials or independentists: Gilles Simeoni, the boss of the Corsican executive, the president of the Assembly of Corsica, Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, and his predecessor, Jean-Guy Talamoni, as well as most counselors. But also some ancient, guardians of the memory of the 1970s and 1980, including several founders of the National Liberation Front of Corsica, anxious to observe this “less organized” activist, but very determined, summarizes the one of them.

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