This decision is part of a context of sharp tensions in Corsica, after the aggression of Yvan colonna at the prison of Arles, on March 2, then his death, Monday.
Le Monde with AFP
It was a claim from families and several elected officials. Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, accomplices of Yvan Colonna in the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, can be transferred “by mid-April” in Borgo Prison, Corsica, announced Wednesday 22 March Matignon. This decision is part of a context of strong tensions on the island, after the aggression of Yvan colonna at the Prison of Arles on March 2, then his death, Monday.
The path of approximation of MM. Ferrandi and Alessandri, sentenced to perpetuity criminal imprisonment, had been opened after the lifting of their status as “particularly reported detainees” there are eleven days.
“The Prime Minister decided on March 11 to lift the particularly reported inmate status” of the two stakeholders, “said Matignon in a statement, pointing out that they had” since formalized their request for transfer to the prison of Borgo “.
“After exchanges with their respective lawyers, these detainees will be transferred by mid-April, after implementation of the usual procedure for detainees”, is it still specified.
Request elected officials
Last week, in full trip from Gérald Darmanin to Corsica, the Executive Board of the Island Executive Council, Gilles Simeoni, had pleaded for a rapprochement “in the coming days” of Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi. “It is imperative in my opinion that these two convicts be in Borgo not only in the summer but in the coming days,” he insisted, by asking to “disconnect this application of the right of the current situation”. Corsica.
The Minister of the Interior, on the spot to try to appease a tense situation after two weeks of anger, or even riots, had received the relatives and lawyers of the two detainees. The minister conditioned this decision to bring back a quiet return on the island. “It can not be the street that commands,” he insisted. The situation has since appeased.
Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, arrested in 1999, were sentenced in 2003 to the perpetuity criminal imprisonment for their participation in the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998, in Ajaccio. They purge their sentence at the central house of Poissy, in the department of Yvelines. Yvan Colonna, the third member of the “Commando Erignac”, also sentenced to perpetuity criminal imprisonment, was held at the central house of Arles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
In December, about fifteen parliamentarians from several political groups had signed a tribune in Le Monde to ask that these three prisoners could purge the rest of their sentence in a Corsican prison. Some of them had then returned to the end of January in Poissy and Arles to meet these detainees and support their request for rapprochement.