Franck Elong Abé, 37, is indicted for assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise. He violently attacked Yvan Colonna on March 2, 2022 in the sports hall of Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) The independence activist, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, died from his injuries.
A parliamentary commission of inquiry into the conditions of this fatal attack pointed out in May 2023 “serious failures” in the assessment of the dangerousness of Franck Abé and general ‘dysfunctions’ in the penitentiary establishment.