It is a document that highlights the “shortcomings” of the administration. The parliamentary commission of inquiry publishes this Tuesday its report on the fatal attack on the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna in Arles prison in March 2022.
The report must be published online during the day, and the chairman of the committee Jean-Félix Acquaviva (Liot MP for Haute-Corse) and the rapporteur Laurent Marcangeli (MP for Corse-du-Sud, Horizons) will hold a conference press briefing at the Assembly at 5 p.m.
Six months of work for the commission
Yvan Colonna, who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, had been violently attacked on March 2, 2022 in the prison sports hall by Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old radicalized man convicted in particular in a terrorist case. The 61-year-old Corsican independence activist died three weeks later.
During its six months of work – 71 people heard during 37 hearings – the commission focused on the prison treatment of Franck Elong Abé, the circumstances surrounding the attack and the reasons for maintaining the status of “particularly reported prisoner (DPS) by Yvan Colonna. With a question in the background: why was Franck Elong Abé in ordinary detention and how could he find himself alone with Yvan Colonna for 15 minutes?
The hearings, in particular of the head of the anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office, that of the prison administration, and that of prison intelligence, brought to light the disturbing profile before and during the detention of Franck Elong Abé, also classified DPS, who went to fight with Taliban in Afghanistan in the early 2010s and which increased incidents in prison. According to the commission, he nevertheless benefited from an astonishing “leniency”, “at the antipodes” of the “excessively rigorous” prison treatment of Yvan Colonna.