A crowd had gathered in the Corsican village, Friday, to make a last tribute to the man sentenced for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac.
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Corsican banderas float wind on the balconies. Corsican banderas lick shop windows, restaurants and bars. Corsican banderas punctuate the edge of the pavement and finally Corsican banderas unfold on the facades of the houses. This Friday, March 25, Cargèse (South Corsica) bury one of his children. The Banders, these flags at the head of Moor – True Corsican National Color – are everywhere. Just as these photos, these portraits with the stencil painted on the walls, these graffiti with the glory of “Yvan”.
As a party day in the village, Cargèse decorated. The village is paved with ornaments with the effigy of Yvan Colonna. From noon, under a heaven of azure swept by a cold wind, dozens of people went to the Latin church overlooking the sea. The first arrivals settled on the wall that belts the forecourt. Then little by little, they were hundreds, mounted from Ajaccio, from Bastia and elsewhere, to finish in several thousand, on the blow of 15 hours, when the glash rang.
From the middle of the morning, they wander in the village, a tantinal idle. Mostly men, often of mature, cap screwed on the skull. Longtime activists. Who for twenty or thirty years and sometimes more preach the nationalist cause, who posed bombs in public buildings, who spent a part of their youth in the prisons of the continent. They seal their reunion. For some, after so many years. Are kissing most often. Sometimes exclude.
There is the “old” chief Charles Pieri, as always surrounded by his loved ones who form a kind of pretorian custody. There are some former members of the commando Erignac. These have purged their sentence. Like Marcel Istria, released in 2014 after fifteen years in prison. He never recognized his belonging to the commando. There is also Vincent Andriuzzi and Jean Castela. Suspected of being the northern cell of the island, the “intellectual” branch of the Commando, they had been accused of “complicity of assassination” in July 2003 and had been sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment. Three years later, the Court of Appeal had partially acquitted the head of “complicity” to remember only offenses.
“Emotional mobilization”
The representatives of the League of Human Rights have also made the displacement of Ajaccio. André Pacou, Regional Delegate of the Association, pleads for the light to be made concerning the aggression of the victim Yvan colonna at the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) and that “the truth is called to the family Colonna “. “We must avoid falling into a cycle of violence,” he wants, but for that, it takes that a real debate must be established on the Corsican issue and that “the corses are consulted”.
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