The report of the General Inspectorate of Justice on the assassination in prison of the Corsican separatist Yvan Colonna by one of his fellow prisoners will be submitted “next week” to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, announced Thursday Gérald Darmanin.
The Minister of the Interior made this announcement at the end of the first meeting of the strategic committee on the future of Corsica, which he chaired Thursday in Paris. Present at these discussions, the president of the executive council of Corsica Gilles Simeoni considered that the submission of this report constituted “an important point”.
A radicalized inmate
“From the start of the meeting, we made a point of recalling that the demand for justice and truth for Yvan Colonna was shared by all the elected officials present, and it was reaffirmed by the Minister of the Interior”, said added Gilles Simeoni.
On March 2 in Arles prison, the independence activist sentenced to life for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in February 1998, was attacked by a 36-year-old Cameroonian prisoner, who was serving several sentences including one of nine years. prison for “terrorist association of criminals”. This radicalized detainee, Franck Elong Abé, has since been indicted for attempted terrorist assassination.
Yvan Colonna died of his injuries in Marseille after three weeks in a coma. The government then requested a report from the General Inspectorate of Justice to shed light on the circumstances of this attack, which aroused anger and controversy.