Corsica: Gérald Darmanin preaches autonomy to soothe anger of street

After two weeks of tension related to the aggression of Yvan colonna in prison, the interior minister arrived on the island on Wednesday.

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By putting the foot on an island shaken by the nationalist anger, Wednesday, March 16, the interior minister Gérald Darmanin has three days to prevent the wick on by the attempted murder of Yvan Colonna, today between life and death, becomes a permanent fire.

Since the aggression, March 2, at the Centrale d’Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) of the nationalist, convicted of perpetuity criminal imprisonment for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, urban guerrillas caused 123 wounded Among the police and burning for public buildings, such as the Ajaccio Courthouse or the Tax Center of Bastia.

Gérald Darmanin had not yet arrived in Ajaccio that he was already opening the path of autonomy in the columns of Corsica. While doing a “Mea Culpa” on the responsibility of the State in the aggression of Yvan Colonna “as a protective person of the persons who are under his responsibility, in this case prisoners,” he also condemned these violence And advancing that the return to calm was a “pre-“.

In a bunkerized Corsican assembly, where the press was long held away, on the sidewalk, Mr. Darmanin seemed to go to Canossa to meet Head by Gilles Simeoni, which he appointed his privileged interlocutor . Not in the official office of the President of the executive on the third floor, where does not always figure the tricolor flag, but in a meeting room on the ground floor.

The idea of “A status to the Polynesian”

The resident of Place Beauvau played the partition of the autonomy of the island, in particular the idea “of a status to the Polynesian”, conferring all the competences except those under the field. regalien, or evoking Article 74 of The Constitution

He also initiated the dialogue with civil society and the presidents of the four groups of the Corsica Assembly and the representative of Corsica Libera. “The minister has pronounced an important term in the history of Corsica, that of autonomy. We have to go to a fruitful mode of operation for Corsica, which may not be the case with the one we Today, “said Laurent Marcangeli, Leader of the right opposition (a Soffiu Novu,” a new breath for Corsica “).

m. Marcangeli, a founding member of Horizons, become the strongest electoral relay of Macronia on the island, also spoke to a referendum on this issue, “which will appeal to the entire Corsica people for that it determines for its future “. But he also called for the calm of the street, something that the nationalists who want to keep the iron arm with the state.

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