“We are ready to go as far as autonomy” for Corsica, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin assured the daily on Tuesday evening. Corsica-Martinon the eve of a two-day visit to the island after two weeks of tension around the aggression of Yvan Colonna.
But the prerequisite for a discussion between the Corsican elected officials and the government around the future of Corsica is a return to calm, insisted the minister, according to an extract from an interview with the newspaper published on its website. ci: “There cannot be sincere dialogue in a democracy under the pressure of agricultural bombs and the presence, or omnipresence, of the forces of order. »
He recognizes a part “responsibility” of the State in the aggression of Colonna
“We are ready to go as far as autonomy. Afterwards, the question is to know what this autonomy is. We have to discuss it, ”said the tenant of Place Beauvau in an interview which will be published in full on Wednesday in the paper version of the Corsican newspaper.
This institutional question “will logically be engaged during the second term” of President Macron, if he were to be re-elected, he specified.
In this interview, Gérald Darmanin also recognizes a share of “responsibility” of the State in the aggression of Yvan Colonna, on March 2. “There is a responsibility of the State as protector of the people who are under its responsibility, in this case prisoners,” he said, pledging to “tell the truth about what happened” to the independence activist in the prison where he was serving a life sentence for his participation in the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998 in Ajaccio.