After the stupor, the controversy.
Following the attack on Yvan Colonna by a fellow jihadist prisoner in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) on Wednesday, the executive is singled out by Corsican nationalists, as well as by his national opponents.
The state is first accused of not having ensured the safety of the man sentenced for the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac.
The opportunity for Marine Le Pen to denounce a government which
“does not even hold its prisons anymore”
and for the communist Fabien Roussel to call on it to
“guarantee the rights”
of prisoners.
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"State Assassination": anger wins the Corsicans after the aggression of Yvan Colonna
But another target appears in the viewfinder of the oppositions: the pleas of inadmissibility addressed by the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, to the requests for rapprochement in Corsica of Yvan Colonna, imprisoned for eighteen years, and of Pierre Alessandri and d 'Alain Ferrandi, detained for twenty-two years at the central prison in Poissy (Yvelines).
The three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for their participation…
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