This decision comes after the aggression of Yvan Colonna, sentenced to the perpetuity for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, which provoked manifestations in Corsica. This status prevented the rapprochement of these inmates to a prison on the island.
Le Monde with AFP
This old claim had become a major political crimping point in Corsica. After a similar measure taken for Yvan Colonna, Jean Castex raised, Friday, March 11, the status of “particularly reported” (DPS) of Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, members of the commando Erignac, named the prefect of Corsica, murdered In 1998.
This announcement intervenes “in a spirit of appeasement” after the violent aggression of Yvan Colonna, who has generated a series of events in Corsica, announced Matignon to the France-Press agency (AFP).
This status, which prevented their rapprochement towards a Corsican prison, had been challenged for years by independence detainees, involved in the assassination of Claude Erignac. This decision, which applies “without delay”, therefore opens the way to a Corsican of the two detainees.
Discussions on the status of Corsica
The Prime Minister had already tried to drop the tension on Tuesday night by rising, “for human reasons” he ensures, the DPS status of Yvan Colonna, sentenced to perpetuity. While the independentist activist is in the coma after his aggression, on March 2, in his prison of Arles, by a codetrous imprisoned for terrorism, the gesture was judged by many as a provocation. This measure had not prevented the multiplication of events and a night of riots on Wednesday night.
In this context, Mr. Castex said, “Firmly condemn” violence, who saw the Ajaccio courthouse targeted on Wednesday night, “as well as totally displaced remarks accusing the state of To have intentionally lent the hand to the very serious aggression of which Yvan Colonna was victim “.
“The conditions under which this unacceptable act has been able to intervene in a penitentiary establishment must be elucidated in a rapid and transparent manner,” said the Prime Minister, recalling having diligent a survey of the General Inspectorate of Justice.
m. Castex “proposed that once the calm returned to the island, the dialogue initiated in recent months on the evolution of the status of the Corsica community, as well as the major economic and social issues of the territory can resume”. He instructed the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin to “make proposals” in that sense.
Thursday evening, the Executive President of the Executive Council of Corsica, Gilles Simeoni, had called the state to “open a new political cycle and to say clearly that there is a Corsican question.” And among the expected “strong signals” were also “the immediate lifting of the status of DPS” of MM. Alessandri and Ferrandi “and their transfer” in the Corsican prison of Borgo.
If Mr Castex gave satisfaction on these points, “the bellows of popular anger could only fall back a little or a lot,” said Thierry Dominici Politologist Thierry Dominici on Thursday, a specialist of nationalist movements.