The commission of inquiry intends to shed light on “the conditions under which” the alleged murderer “was able to benefit from a classification in ordinary detention (…) and not to be subject to the stages of detection of radicalization in the middle prison “.
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The law commission of the National Assembly gave its approval on Wednesday, November 23, to the creation of a commission of inquiry around the deadly aggression in March, of Yvan Colonna, which had aroused a very strong emotion in Corsica.
On March 2, Yvan Colonna Militant Independentist Corsica who was serving a prison sentence in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, had been violently attacked in the room Sport by Franck Elong Abé, a 36 -year -old man who served several sorrows, including one of nine years for “criminal association for the preparation of an act of terrorism”. He died of his injuries after three weeks of coma.
The centrist, independent, overseas, overseas and territories (Liot) group has exercised its right of draw to launch this commission of inquiry, by subjecting a resolution of the deputy of Haute-Corse Jean-Félix Acquaviva. She intends to shed light on “the conditions under which” the alleged murderer “was able to benefit from a classification in ordinary detention (…) and not to be subjected to the stages of detection of radicalization in prison”. She also wishes to “study the genesis and the conditions under which the status of particularly reported detainees was maintained” for Yvan Colonna.
“What is at stake is the thirst for justice and truth of the island society”, argued Mr. Acquaviva, believing that hearings in the Assembly had revealed “contradictions”, in particular On “the evaluation of the radicalization” of the alleged murderer.
“requirement of truth and justice”
This commission, which will be made up of thirty deputies at most following a proportional representation of groups in the Assembly, will render its work within a maximum of six months. The Liot group hopes to start the work “in December or January, no later”.
“I hope it will allow us to advance significantly towards the requirement of truth and justice”, reacted the autonomist Gilles Simeoni, president of the Executive Council of Corsica. “We are now waiting for all the light to be shed on the circumstances of this assassination,” said the president of the Assembly of Corse Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, autonomist.
“The Commission must take care throughout its work not to have its investigations on issues relating to the exclusive jurisdiction of the judicial authority,” said Caroline Abadie (Renaissance), a reporter creating the Commission . “Only the judicial inquiry will be able to clarify the reasons for the aggression, and delimit responsibilities and possible complicities,” she insisted.
Two legal proceedings are open: an investigation for “assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise”, a second for violation of the secrecy of the investigation.
A report by the General Inspectorate of Justice considered that the supervisor in charge of the wing where the Corsican separatist was demonstrated a “net lack of vigilance” by remaining “without any distant reason” from the place of the facts, which lasted nine minutes.
The former director of Arles prison and a supervisor will be the subject of “disciplinary procedures”, announced in July Elisabeth Borne.