In Bastia, eight Crs and three civilians were injured, including a photographer of “Corse-morning”.
Le Monde with AFP
One week after the aggression of Yvan Colonna in prison, hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday night in Ajaccio, Calvi or Bastia in support of the nationalist activist, with again clashes. In Bastia, eight Crs and three civilians were injured, including a photographer of Corse-morning, according to the prefecture of Haute-Corse.
“The protesters shot Molotov cocktails, agricultural bombs, iron balls, shots of fronde” and “CRS kept the distance with the protesters by the use of tear gas”, detailed the prefecture in a communiqué . “One LBD shot has been made and touched a protester approaching with a molotov cocktail,” she added.
In a joint message, the Corse-Morning direction and the unions condemned “with the greatest firm” the aggression of their photographer and “the threats of which it was the subject”.
a Calvi, after a calm manifestation start, “about forty protesters, hooded, threw Molotov cocktails against the sub-prefecture and broken glass windows,” said the prefecture, which calls for Quiet after the six days of mobilization that followed the aggression of Yvan colonna by a codettee condemned for terrorism which dived her in coma.
Eight people injured
In Ajaccio, about 400 people had gathered in front of the prefecture at nightfall, and very quickly the gathering was also enamelled of incidents, found a correspondent of the France-Presse agency. Eight people were injured, according to firefighters.
Wednesday night, already seven wounded had been counted among the protesters in Ajaccio, including a 16-year-old high school student affected by defense ball launchers (LBD).
In addition, Wednesday, the nationalist organizations gathered in Corte have filed a unitary event on Sunday afternoon in Bastia, despite the reluctance of the Colonna family, which says fear “a new drama” in the context.
Tuesday, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, raised Yvan Colonna’s “particularly reported detainee”, sentenced for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, a decision that was tried far too late in Corsica.