For Valérie Pécresse, the death of Yvan Colonna is “a tragedy”. While considering that Emmanuel Macron had “played for time” in the case of Corsican prisoners, the presidential candidate called on Monday “not to set Corsica ablaze”.
Yvan Colonna, the Corsican independence activist sentenced to life for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, died Monday evening following his attack in Arles prison on March 2, announced his family, via his lawyer Patrice Spinosi.
Pécresse wants to strengthen the police
“On Yvan Colonna, it’s a tragedy, and I call for keeping calm and cold blood and not setting Corsica ablaze”, declared the candidate LR on CNews, after the sometimes violent demonstrations of recent weeks. “I wish for a return to order in Corsica and I call on all our Corsican compatriots to calm and be restrained”, she added, considering “absolutely essential in the current context” to strengthen the forces of the order on the spot.
Valérie Pécresse also affirmed that we “do not negotiate under pressure from the street, we will negotiate (on the autonomy of Corsica) when order returns”. She said she was “favorable, but not only for Corsica, to a great pact with the regions”. “I want this decentralization, I am a regionalist and patriot and European, I am not afraid to give power to the regions but if we give autonomy, it must be with obligations of result”, he said. she developed.