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The executive condemns the strong tributes of Corsican leaders to Yvan Colonna

2022-03-25T18:59:14.687Z


To hear the autonomist leaders, it is the memory of the child of the country which is saluted, and not that of the man definitively condemned in 2011 for the death of a prefect.


They left on an agreement.

But the death of Yvan Colonna has awakened their disagreements.

Less than a week after holding long discussions in Ajaccio, going so far as to act with him on the promise of a change in the status of Corsica by the end of the year, the Minister of the Interior has decided to harden the tone against the autonomist Gilles Simeoni.

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The tenant of the Hôtel de Beauvau had little taste for the strong tribute from the President of the Island's Executive Council to Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Érignac.

In his sights: the flags of the Corsica community put at half mast on Tuesday, the day after the death of the 61-year-old nationalist activist, following his attack on March 2 by a fellow jihadist prisoner.

This regard is

"a kind of insult for the Érignac family, for the French state, for the representatives of the state"

, declared Gérald Darmanin Thursday in the program "C à vous" on France 5, on the eve funeral organized in Cargèse (Corse-du-Sud).

From Wednesday…

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Source: lefigaro

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