The Corsican separatist, who was serving in Arles a prison sentence for the murder of the prefect Claude Erignac, died in March after being violently assaulted by a fellow prisoner.
Le Monde with AFP
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced on Thursday July 28, “the outbreak of disciplinary procedures” against two agents of the Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) after the delivery of a Report on the assassination of Yvan Colonna in March.
The mission highlights, according to a press release from Matignon ,” disciplinary breaches “of two personnel due,” D ‘A part, of an active vigilance defect, and on the other hand, of inappropriate management both of video surveillance and the orientation in the evaluation district of radicalization “.
Matignon added that the Prime Minister “decided to follow the entire recommendations” of the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ), seized after the violent aggression by a fellow prisoner of the Corsican separatist, who served a life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.
An anonymized version of the report will be made public
There are twelve recommendations, and the first six, addressed to the new establishment head of the Central House of Arles, concern “the improvement of control rules” and the “control and the articulation of video surveillance “to allow immediate interventions. The latest requests the evaluation of the implementation of the penitentiary measures of the interministerial prevention plan for radicalization.
The detainee who had attacked Yvan Colonna, Franck Elong Abé, is radicalized and has since been indicted for attempted terrorist assassination. The Corsican separatist died from his injuries in Marseille, after three weeks of coma.
The government then asked for a report to the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) to clarify the circumstances of this aggression, which aroused anger and controversial. This report was submitted to the cabinet of the Prime Minister and not to the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, because the latter, as a former lawyer of Yvan Colonna, is forced to deport everything related to the Independentist.
traveling to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges on Thursday, M borne assured that, “in accordance with the commitment that had been made”, this report would be “made public” in a Anonymized version, “so as not to show the names of the people concerned”.