The events and violence that followed the fatal aggression of Yvan Colonna have silence some of the population.
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“French of shit”, “French, sub-race”, “I Francesi Fora (” The French outside “)”, “Arabi Fora” (“The Arabs outside”), “the suitcase or the coffin”. These registrations have defiled the corsican walls after the events that have succeeded the fatal aggression of Yvan Colonna at the Centrale d’Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), March 2nd.
For five weeks, the island lives at the rhythm of gatherings and riots, worn by sometimes xenophobic and violent slogans. These movements have erected as “martyr of the Corsican case” Yvan Colonna, who was condemned in 2011 to the perpetuity criminal imprisonment for the assassination, in 1998, from the prefect of Corsica.
“Every time, we avoid the worst, but I do not want a drama to arrive, because I live here with my family and I want to go home in the evening,” says, under anonymity , a police officer has been installed for ten years in the island. He says “frightened” by the hatred of young riots who promise to the police of “kill them”. Like some officials, like “a lot of continental”, he prefers to remain silent in an open sky powder where the words are sharp weapons.
“We do not have the right to criticize”
The protest movement of high school students has fallen as fast as it is mounted. Three weeks of urban tensions and violence: “We always feel this lead screed,” says a professor of Léetitia-Bonaparte Lycée d’Ajaccio. “Everyone has been surprised by the degree of violence and everyone walked on eggs to try to defuse the blockages,” he continues. In his establishment, the courses sometimes turned into “group therapy”, in inflamed debates around the Yvan Colonna case. “What is the construction of a myth? Twenty-four years ago, the nationalist movement itself said that the commando who killed the Prefect Erignac came from a brigadist drift, today, We come to say “Yvan, Gloria to Tè, glory to you, Yvan”: How did we get there? “, wonders the teacher in the face of this young generation who was not born on February 6th 1998, when the prefect of Corsica was shot three balls in the back.
In his class, the discussions virus to the declamation, by some students, “pundila”, “poorly digested political slogans”. The omnipresence of this preaching preached is the sign, according to him, “of a kind of unique thought, of well-pensance”, distributed by the nationalists on these issues, often prohibiting the contradictory debate. The symptom also of a “manipulation” of youth, which refute the nationalist movements.
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