A wall-painting of Yvan Colonna, Corsica. Wikipedia
Corsican separatist dies three weeks after attacked in prison
One of Yvan Colonna's lawyers, Sylvain Cormier, said it was "astonishing" that while her client "was one of the most watched detainees in France by virtue of his status (...) which prevented him from being brought closer to his relatives in Corsica, the prison administration proved incapable of ensuring his basic protection".
Published: March 25, 2022, 1:26 pm
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The Corsican “shepherd”, sentenced to life for the assassination of the French prefect Claude Érignac, had been transferred to a hospital in Marseille, where he had been in a coma since his attack in the prison of Arles. He was 61 years old.
Yvan Colonna died after more than two weeks in a coma, the family lawyer announced to BFM TV on Monday. Sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac in 1998, he was violently attacked by another prisoner, a jihadist, in Arles prison on March 2.
According to our information, the co-detainee suspected of having assaulted him had been convicted of terrorist criminal association and was the jihadist Franck Elong Abé, a 36 year-old Cameroonian inmate.
The former Corsican separatist had been the victim of “strangulation with his bare hands, then suffocation”, explained the Tarascon prosecutor, Laurent Gumbau. After being hospitalized in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), he was transferred to Marseille, where he was in a post-anoxic coma, a type of coma resulting from oxygen deprivation in the brain, according to the magistrate.
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One comment
Despite what the French government might say, it appears that a large part of the prison system has been taken over by the Islamists. And this reflects the inmate demographics. At any rate, by lack of oversight or design, an important Corsican nationalist has been put to death, and th French government has a major political crisis on its hands. The autonomy of Corsica is now a very serious possibility, and other French regions that have differences with Paris will be watching closely.
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