“We are ready to go as far as autonomy” for Corsica, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin assured the daily Corse-Matin on Tuesday evening, on the eve of a two-day visit to the island after two weeks of tension around the aggression of Yvan Colonna.
An “unprecedented discussion around the institutional question” will be initiated, he promises.
The process would be "logically initiated during the second term of the President of the Republic", if Emmanuel Macron is re-elected.
Very recently in charge of the “Corsican dossier” by the Élysée, Gérald Darmanin therefore says he is “ready to go as far as autonomy.
Afterwards, the question is to know what this autonomy is.
We need to discuss it.
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State responsibility
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”.
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During this interview, Gérald Darmanin also recognizes a “responsibility
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of the State in the aggression of the nationalist militant.
“There is a responsibility of the State as protector of the people who are under its responsibility, in this case prisoners.
This is why the Minister of the Interior has undertaken to shed light "on what happened to Yvan Colonna" in Arles prison.