Gérald Darmanin will visit Corsica on Wednesday and Thursday to “open a cycle of discussion” with elected officials

While protests and violence multiply on the island since the aggression in Yvan prison colonna in early March, the Minister of the Interior reports in a statement published on Monday that the government has “heard the requests from Corsica elected officials on the institutional, economic, social or cultural future “of Corsica.

Le Monde with AFP

While the tensions exacerbent in Corsica since the aggression in prison of Yvan Colonna, independent activist sentenced for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced Monday, March 14 that ‘He would go to Corsica on Wednesday and Thursday, to “open” a “cycle of discussion” with “all elected representatives and vibrant forces of the island”, in a press release transmitted to the France-Presse agency (AFP ).

The government has “heard the demands of Corsica elected officials on the institutional, economic, social or cultural future” of the island, indicates the minister, including “those of the Chairman of the Executive Board, Gilles Simeoni”, who Relates, among other claims, a status of autonomy for Corsica.

This cycle of “unprecedented” discussion will aim to “find the conditions of such an evolution of Corsica in the Republic, as provided for in the Constitution,” says Darmanin. Sunday, the event in Bastia in support of Yvan Colonna, bringing together nearly 7,000 people, according to the prefecture, 12,000, according to the organizers, fired at “the riot”, according to the Attorney of Bastia, with 67 wounded, of which 44 members of the police.

Call to “a quiet return without delay”

Condemning “firmly” the violence that burst the island in recent days, the minister calls in his communiqué to a “return to calm without delay”, “calm without which no dialogue can start”. Mr. Darmanin continued by writing “his [see] that the corsishes, for whom he has the greatest respect, aspire to find the tranquility and ensures his full listening in these difficult times”. At its displacement, it will in particular be at the “police meeting” mobilized on the spot.

Since the aggression, March 2 in prison, from Yvan Colonna, independently activist convicted for his participation in the assassination of the Prefect Erignac in 1998, several rallies and violence took place on the island, on the bottom of questions about the conditions of this attack.

Last Friday, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, tried to appease the situation by announcing the lifting of the status of “Particularly reported” (DPS) of Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, two other members of the “Commando Erignac” still detained on the continent. This status previously prevented their rapprochement towards a Corsican prison.

/Media reports.