While clasps have shook Corsica on Tuesday, the decision of the government “is based on the particular severity of the” prisoner’s health situation, “said Matignon, Tuesday.
Le Monde with AFP
Nearly a week after Yvan Colonna’s aggression in prison, who sparked many events of anger in Corsica, Prime Minister, Jean Castex, lifted, Tuesday, March 8, the status of “particularly detainee reported “(DPS) of the Independent Activist. A decision that appears as a symbolic gesture of appeasement, according to a government source, at the moment when clashes and demonstrations are repeated in Corsica.
This status, which prevented its rapprochement towards a Corsican prison, had been challenged for years by the independentist activist, sentenced to the perpetuity for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac, in 1998.
This decision “is based on the particular severity of Yvan Colonna’s health situation, always between life and death in a Marseille hospital after an attempted throttle and choking by a co-codeta at home Central Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), Matignon said in a statement.
“It was before he had to do it”
But the family and some nationalist activists have insurgent against a decision deemed too late. “Call for Penitentiary Administration at 8:32 pm on my mobile to inform me of Radiation of Yvan Colonna’s DPS Status Given his state of health that removes the risk of escape and reconsider his dangerousness. Words are missing, “Tweeted one of his lawyers, M e Emmanuel Mercrinier-Pantalacci.
“Tonight, an additional level of the revenge of state: the lifting of DPS for a man nailed on a hospital bed after an assassination attempt”, has, for his part, tweeted the sister of Yvan Colonna.
“It was before he had to do it, like that he could have returned home, finish his sentence on his land. It’s too late, and the argument is to vomit,” reacted Tuesday night Vannina Angelini Buresi, ancient elected of the Independentist Corsica liberated to the Corsica Assembly, interviewed by the France-Presse agency, on the sidelines of a new event in Ajaccio.
The League of Corsican Human Rights had asked in the day “signs of appeasement”, also referring to requests for the approximation of two other members of the commando who killed the Prefect Erignac, a rapprochement already claimed by several members of all political edges.
In Paris, MEPs announced that they audition senior prison administration “on” Yvan Colonna surveillance conditions. In Corsica, where the nationalists and the family of Yvan Colonna accuse the state of “overwhelming responsibility”, the day began on Tuesday in Ajaccio by the parade of several hundred high school students denouncing a “French State Assassin”.
clashes
At the end of the morning Tuesday, clashes erupted in front of the prefecture and nearby, groups of protesters throwing various projectiles and agricultural bombs (artisanal) towards the police, a stirring confined to this district. The incidents ended around 10 pm
In Bastia, clashes started at 4:30 pm in front of the prefecture, with projectile jets on the police. They made a “loud wounded in a CRS,” AFP said the prosecutor of the Republic of Bastia, Arnaud Viornerry. Hears had already taken place on Monday.
The executive council of Corsica estimated Tuesday that the mobilization in Corsica “must continue”, but called “the young corses to take no risk”, tweeted its president, Gilles Simeoni. Corte, the Board of Directors of the University of Corsica, blocked since Thursday, asked “solemnly the release of all Corsican political prisoners”.