The transfer of the last two members of the commando condemned to the perpetuity for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac was a claim of families and several elected officials.
Le Monde and AFP
The transfer of Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, the last two members, since the death of Yvan Colonna, the commando sentenced to the perpetuity for the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, was under way Monday to the prison Corsica of Borgo , learned the France-Press (AFP) agency of concordant sources.
The two prisoners left Monday morning the central prison of Poissy (Yvelines) and are aboard an airplane that must land at Bastia-Portetta airport, said these sources. On March 22, the Prime Minister had, Jean Castex announced this transfer “by [in the] mid-April”. This decision was taken in a context of strong tensions on the island, after Yvan’s aggression colonna at Arles Prison on March 2, then his death on March 21st.
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.
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.
A claimed transfer. by elected officials
Alain Ferrandi is waiting on April 21 the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal on his request for sentence under a semi-freedom regime at Borgo Corsica prison. This request had been accepted on 24 February at first instance but had been the subject of a suspensive appeal of the national anti-terrorist prosecutor.
Pierre Alessandri will have to wait for him on May 12 to know the decision of the anti-terrorism enforcement court concerning his request for sentence, also under the semi-freedom regime at the Borgo Penitentiary Center.
For both detainees, the planning of sentence requested plans that they work outside during the day and sleep at Borgo Prison at night.
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.