Placed in a disciplinary cell, Yvan Colonna begins a hunger and thirst strike

Incarcerated in Arles, Yvan Colonna began a hunger and thirst strike on Tuesday February 2, according to information reported by

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This decision follows his placement in the mitard, after he refused to change cells at the request of the prison administration.

Yvan Colonna was sentenced in 2011 for the assassination of Prefect Claude Erignac, who died on February 6, 1998. He has always denied the facts.

Saturday, January 30, nearly 1,500 people demonstrated in Corte to demand the rapprochement in Corsica of Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, two other convicted of the assassination of Prefect Erignac, imprisoned for nearly 22 years.