The clashes took place between young people and the police, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, making several wounded, following the aggression of Yvan colonna in Prison Arles. The courthouse of Ajaccio and the sub-prefecture of Calvi suffered damage.
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The Nights of Corsican, Wednesday, March 9, in Ajaccio, Bastia and Calvi, a week after the assassination attempt, by a codérottee imprisoned for terrorism, of which was a victim on March 2 at the central house of ‘Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) The Nationalist activist Yvan Colonna, convicted of perpetuity criminal imprisonment for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998, in Ajaccio. Since then, demonstrations are ceasing to overcome on the island, mobilizing young students, high school and college students and regularly ending up clashes with law enforcement. The tension has just climbed a notch.
The decision, announced Tuesday, March 8, by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, to remove the status of “particularly monitored detainee” (DPS) of Yvan Colonna, always in the coma because of the seriousness of his state of health, only attracted anger. This measure presented as a sign of appeasement by Paris was perceived in Corsica as a provocation. “In view of Yvan Colonna’s dramatic health situation, the only measure that is the immediate lifting of the status of DPS from Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi [the other two members of the commando] and their rapprochement,” said Tuesday. , the Chairman of the Executive Board, Gilles Simeoni, who launched a call to young people not to “expose themselves to physical risks”, while enjoining the law enforcement officers “proscribe totally any job of dangerous means For people “.
Vaine exhortation. The organized gatherings Wednesday extended late at night, turning into real street battles. In Ajaccio, where nearly 800 people were gathered in support of Yvan Colonna, the air, saturated with tear gas, quickly became displayable, while the assaults were suited between the hood protesters, on one side, the CRS and the moving gendarmes, on the other. Fires were lit and barricades drawn up near the prefecture, protected by the police. Meanwhile, protesters have introduced into the courthouse where a fire start expressed, causing significant damage.
“Do not do that”
The Napoleon course is littered with trash fires, reverse bottle containers and pile of stones. An anti-riot bar blocks the access of the main artery in the western part of the city. The district adjacent to the court is in the hands of rioters, while the CRSs and the movable gendarmes, concentrated on the defense of the prefecture and the attached police station to avoid any intrusion, must undergo repeated assailants.
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