BFM TV INFO. The Corsican shepherd Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, was taken to hospital in Arles on Wednesday.
Sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac in 1998, Yvan Colonna was attacked by another prisoner this morning in Arles prison, BFMTV learned on Wednesday.
He is in serious condition and was taken to Arles hospital on a ventilator. According to AFP, his vital prognosis is engaged.
According to our information, the detainee who attacked him had been convicted of terrorist criminal association and was a former jihadist in Afghanistan.
During his trial and for many years, the shepherd and nationalist activist from Cargèse did not stop pleading his innocence. In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights rejected his complaint concerning his imprisonment, definitively validating his sentence.
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