One of the life sentences for the assassination of Prefect Erignac in Corsica, Pierre Alessandri, obtained a semi-liberty regime in a Corsican prison but the decision is suspended by an appeal from the prosecution, his lawyer said Wednesday (July 28) to AFP.
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The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) confirmed to AFP that it had appealed against this decision which would allow Pierre Alessandri, currently detained in the Paris region, to benefit from probationary semi-liberty in the prison of Borgo (Haute-Corse) from August 20.
Parole as of August 20, 2023
Following a hearing held on June 28, “
the anti-terrorism court (Tapat) decided to place Pierre Alessandri in semi-liberty in Borgo as of August.
The national antiterrorist prosecutor's office (Pnat) immediately appealed for a suspension,
”Mr. Eric Barbolosi, lawyer for Mr. Alessandri, told AFP, confirming information from the weekly Le Point.
The court also granted parole as of August 20, 2023, the Pnat confirmed to AFP.
"
The appeal being suspensive, nothing will happen until it is studied by the Paris Court of Appeal
," a judicial source told AFP.
“
The decision of Tapat is perfectly justified and motivated in law and in fact with regard to the course of Pierre Alessandri.
We hope that it will be confirmed
", declared Me Barbolosi, specifying that the court of appeal had"
two months to hear
"the appeal.
"
State revenge
"
Pierre Alessandri, 62, arrested with Alain Ferrandi in 1999, was sentenced in 2003 to life imprisonment, like Yvan Colonna, for the assassination of Prefect Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998.
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For several years, Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi have contested the refusal of their rapprochement in a Corsican prison which they consider "
discriminatory
" and synonymous with "
State revenge
".
On Wednesday, Gilles Simeoni, the autonomist president of the Corsican executive council, described on Twitter the deliberations of Tapat as a “
legal decision
” and the appeal of the anti-terrorist prosecution as a “
political decision
”, “
which gives priority to the spirit of vengeance over l 'demand for justice
'.
The lifting of their status of particularly signaled detainee (DPS) is necessary for any reconciliation on the island, which does not have any prison capable of accommodating this type of detainee.
In March 2020, the local prison commission of Poissy (Yvelines), where they are detained, issued a favorable opinion for this lifting but Prime Minister Jean Castex refused it on December 21.
Three days before, he had dismissed the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti from any decision relating to "
the conditions for the execution of sentences and the prison regime
" of the detainees involved in cases that the former lawyer, who defended Yvan Colonna, would have had to deal with.