Following the death of the nationalist, Monday, March 21, the political class presented his condolences and his support for the family, who called for the respect of the mourning by the voice of his lawyers.
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Upon the announcement of the death of Yvan Colonna, Monday, March 21, a suites of his aggression at the prison of Arles, on March 2, the nationalist Corsican started a political vigil, with small gatherings in the calm. In Ajaccio, about sixty people have converged towards the cathedral, laying pious candles on the steps of the building in the same way as two flags at the head of Maure. “The time is at tribute and recollection,” summed up one of the participants. Signs of crosses and prayers had replaced the agricultural bombs and Molotov cocktails that raining on the prefecture, a few hundred meters away ten days ago. To avoid overflow, CRS trucks or movable gendarmes had taken position at the same time around sensitive sites. No noticeable incident was noted in the night.
Other gatherings took place on the island, as in Bastia, in front of the courthouse, where a fire was lit. On a banner appears the nationalist slogan of the 1980s, “the French state is murdered”), chanted by the protesters in the stirred corsican streets by urban guerrilla scenes, since the aggression of the nationalist in Detention.
These three words crystallize the anger of young nationalists who threatens to grow once the period of the past mourning. Yvan Colonna’s family, who did not wish to comment for the time being asked “to respect the time of the mourning” by the voice of his lawyers.
Refusal to draw from Political conclusions
For his part, the island political class, once is not customary, did not want to react on Monday, or so little. The President of the Executive Gilles Simeoni, who was the lawyer of Yvan colonna during his three trials before the Assize Court specially composed for the murder of the Prefect Erignac, in February 1998, simply addressed “his thoughts and his Condolences “to Yvan Colonna’s family, refusing to draw for the time of political conclusions.
On March 2, in the middle of the day, he had been informed of the aggression of the nationalist activist even though he was at the Corsican assembly, celebrating with Faster with ancient elected 40 years of the Status of Decentralization, as if the Colonna case was intrinsically and from all eternity linked to island political destiny. Since the aggression of the latter, Gilles Simeoni who pointed the “State responsibility” presented the imminence of his death and was preparing there.
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