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Death of Yvan Colonna: from the Corsican independence commitment to the assassination of the prefect Erignac

2022-03-21T22:51:16.410Z


Symbol of a calamitous investigation, of a miscarriage of justice for some, the former shepherd was beginning to be forgotten when a fellow prisoner attacked him in scandalous conditions.


Winter 2007. Yvan Colonna appears for the first time before a specially composed assize court.

He answers for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, committed in Ajaccio on February 6, 1998. Four years earlier, the six other identified members of the “group of anonymous people” had been condemned for their participation in this homicide which revolted all of France, and triggered outraged demonstrations in Corsica.

Against Pierre Alessandri, almost brother of Cargèse, and Alain Ferrandi, presented as the leader of the commando, life imprisonment had been pronounced.

In the eyes of the anti-terrorist police, Alessandri, Ferrandi and Colonna were united

"like the fingers of the hand".

The huge hall of the "grandes assizes" of Paris is cut in two.

On the left, facing the courtyard, the Corsicans came in large numbers to support the shepherd of Cargèse and his family.

On the right, just as numerous, the members of the prefectural body who accompany the family of the victim - the widow of the senior official, their two…

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Source: lefigaro

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