The Minister of the Interior has awarded a daily interview Tuesday, on the eve of a two-day visit to the island, after two weeks of tension around the aggression of Yvan Colonna.
Le Monde
“We are ready to go to the autonomy” for Corsica, assured the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, In an interview in Corsica which Must seem Wednesday morning. The daily site has published on Tuesday night high maintenance extracts.
The tenant of Beauvau Square will visit two days on the island, Wednesday and Thursday, after two weeks of tension around the aggression in prison in Yvan Colonna.
“The question is to know what is this autonomy. We have to discuss it,” added the Minister of the Interior. But the prerequisite for a discussion between the corsican elected officials and the government around the future of Corsica is the return to calm, “said Darmanin:” There can not be sincere dialogue in democracy under the pressure of the bombs agricultural and presence, or ubiquity, order forces “.
In this interview, the minister also recognized a “state responsibility, as the protector of the persons who are under his responsibility, in this case prisoners,” in the aggression of Yvan Colonna. He has also committed to “the truth about what happened” to the independence activist in Arles Prison.
Seventy-seven wounded in Bastia
March 2, Yvan Colonna was a victim of a violent aggression in Arles Prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) where he was serving a prison sentence for his participation in the assassination of the Prefect Erignac in 1998 in Ajaccio. He was still in Coma Tuesday, in a “gravissime” state, according to his lawyer Patrice Spinosi.
Yvan Colonna was attacked by a codérief, Franck Elong Abé, who was serving a sentence for terrorism. The latter is indicted on March 6 for attempted terrorist assassination.
In Corsica, multiple manifestations in support of Yvan Colonna were organized, including appeals with students and high school and high school unions, with the cries of “murdered French state”. They have been enamelled with clashes and violence. A new demonstration on March 13 in Bastia, fired at “the riot”, according to the floor. Sixty-seven people were injured.