Thousands of people scrolled on Sunday in support of the independence activist, author of the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac in 1998 and dead on March 21 after his aggression in prison.
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The anger of Corsican Street does not weaken ten days after the funeral of Yvan Colonna, assaulted in detention on March 2nd and dead on March 21st. Condemned in 2011 to the perpetuity criminal imprisonment for the assassination in 1998 of the Prefect Erignac, it is erected in political martyr by the nationalists.
Several thousands of protesters – 4,000 according to the prefecture and 14,000 according to the organizers – have marched on Sunday, April 3, in Ajaccio behind a bandery that has become customary, “St. Francese Assassinu”, (the French state is assassin) , among others, by the brother of the nationalist, Stéphane Colonna, who had called for this gathering on social networks.
In the procession, most nationalist families did not mix, the Simeoni clan remaining grouped around the executive president, the support of his most virulent opponent, Jean-Christophe Angelini, making some band. The former independentist of the Assembly of Corsica, Jean-Guy Talamoni, and the activists of Corsica Libera were more disseminated and we counted in their ranks Charles Pieri, one of the pillars of the National Liberation Front of the Corsica. The Core In Fronte Party of Paul-Félix Benedetti, which has a large number of active activists in the street block at the forefront.
among those who advanced in the procession, sometimes alternating anti-French slogans with nationalist songs, we have Istaluated under a cloud of Maure-headed white flags of the members of the Erignac Commando, trade unionists or families come “for Yvan”. “For history”. Or “because it’s time to fold the state”. “The revolt of the street is legitimate when a state does not respect the right: our demands, particularly on the recognition of the Corsican people, are ignored,” Pasquale Picoury supports Ghjurventus Independentista, who also came to “to request the Justice and truth for Yvan “.
Molotov cocktails and artisanal bombs
As in March in Corte, then in Bastia, the demonstration was the chronicle of an annoyed riot. “Thank you for paying tribute to Yvan, now everyone is free to do what he wants”, soberly indicated a message from the family colonna at the end of the demonstration on the Diamond Square, in the center of Ajaccio.
A small group of 150 to 200 cottage riots and dressed in black, sporting an orange armband rushed to the prefecture and the police station to flood them with molotov cocktails and craft bombs. The prefecture indicated in a statement that the police forces had also “wiped alarm gun fire”. In the morning, road controls had allowed the seizure of bowles of petanque, iron bars or choppers. “But no protester has been arrested before or after the manifestation,” indicates a police source.
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