The right-wing candidate Valérie Pécresse deplored Monday
"a tragedy
" at the announcement of the death of Yvan Colonna, calling
"not to set Corsica ablaze"
while considering that Emmanuel Macron had
"played time"
in the file Corsican prisoners.
Yvan Colonna, the Corsican independence activist sentenced to life for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, died Monday evening following his attack in Arles prison on March 2, his family announced to AFP, via his lawyer. Patrice Spinosi.
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"On Yvan Colonna, it's a tragedy, and I call for calm and cold blood and not to set Corsica ablaze"
, said presidential candidate LR on CNews, after the sometimes violent demonstrations of these last weeks.
"I wish for a return to order in Corsica and I call on all our Corsican compatriots to be calm and restrained
," she added, considering
"absolutely essential in the current context"
to strengthen the forces of the order on the spot.
"What happened to Yvan Colonna is obviously dramatic
," she continued.
According to her, her competitor and outgoing President Emmanuel Macron
"played the clock on the return of prisoners to Corsican soil"
, alluding to the special status which prevented Yvan Colonna and other convicts from being closer to their families in prisons. Corsican.
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For the right-wing candidate,
"we do not negotiate under pressure from the street, we will negotiate (on the autonomy of Corsica) when order returns
," she said.
She said she was
"favorable, but not only for Corsica, to a great pact with the regions".
"I want this decentralization, I am a regionalist and patriot and European, I am not afraid to give power to the regions but if we give autonomy, it must be with obligations of result"
, he said. she developed.
