The coffin of Yvan Colonna leaves the Latin church of Cargèse
The coffin of the Corsican shepherd leaves the church of Cargèse after the mass rendered in his homage. He will be buried in this same village.
Between mistrust and commitment, the complex relations between the presidents and Corsica
Back on the table on March 15, the question of Corsican autonomy agitates the tenants of the Élysée. If François Mitterrand, Nicolas Sarkozy and Emmanuel Macron had a desire for reform, Jacques Chirac and François Hollande temporized.
A look back at more than forty years of difficult relations between the Isle of Beauty and the mainland in our dedicated article.
Funeral of Yvan Colonna: images of the funeral procession in Cargèse
Many Corsicans gathered this Friday in Cargèse to accompany in silence the coffin of Yvan Colonna to the Latin church of Cargèse.
The coffin, covered with a Corsican flag, entered the church around 3:30 p.m.
From Corsican shepherd to assassin of the prefect Erignac, the “myth” Yvan Colonna
On the evening of February 6, 1998 in Ajaccio (Corse-du-Sud) the prefect Claude Erignac was shot dead at close range. Never a representative of the State had been killed since the Second World War.
A year and a half later, four men were arrested and confessed. An arrest warrant is issued against a fifth, presented by other suspects as the assassin of the prefect Erignac: it is Yvan Colonna. He immediately becomes the most wanted man in France.
He flees into the Corsican maquis. Four years on the run followed until his arrest in July 2003 in a sheepfold near the village of Olmeto (Corse-du-Sud). Convicted in 2007, 2009 and then 2012, Yvan Colonna has always denied his involvement in the assassination of the prefect.
The prefects called for “respect” and “restraint”
In a press release published Thursday evening, the association of the prefectural body and senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior affirms to “join the declaration of the President of the Republic calling for respect and restraint in this time of mourning”.
She “saluteed the memory of the prefect Claude Érignac, cowardly assassinated in the exercise of his functions, on February 6, 1998, and assured his courageous family of his affection”.
Between emotion and anger on the island of Beauty
The death on March 21 of Yvan Colonna caused terror in Corsica. Nearly three weeks after his attack in Arles prison by a radicalized prisoner, many inhabitants of the Isle of Beauty do not hide their anger at the French state, responsible according to them for the death of the Corsican prisoner.
Violent clashes have also occurred in recent weeks in Corsica between demonstrators and the police.
Convicted three times for the murder of the prefect Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998, Ivan Colonna had always claimed his innocence.
Yvan Colonna’s coffin is carried to the church
The coffin of the Corsican shepherd has arrived at the Latin Church of Cargèse (Corse-du-Sud).
Yvan Colonna’s funeral begins in Cargèse
Hello and welcome to this direct dedicated to the funeral of Yvan Colonna. Sentenced for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, he died as a result of his attack in the prison of Arles.