He was sentenced in 2007 to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac. Yvan Colonna died this Wednesday after his attack by a fellow prisoner in the central house of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), learns 20 minutes from a police source.
The facts took place in the courtyard, when an inmate, for reasons that are not yet known, violently attacked him with his bare hands. The judicial police have been seized.
In early January, nationalist deputies denounced the “degrading treatment” of Yvan Colonna in detention. Jean-Félix Acquaviva, Michel Castellani and Paul-André Colombani spoke to the press after a visit to the detainee. “He has not seen his son, who is ten years old, for 15 months, and his mother, who has health problems, for 15 years”, had denounced Jean-Félix Acquaviva, before asking “a family reunion” .