Gérald Darmanin declared Thursday April 7 that the complaint filed the day before against the State by the family of Yvan Colonna after his fatal attack by a fellow prisoner on March 2 at the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) does not "
not shocked
”.
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“The complaint from Yvan Colonna's parents does not shock me, so that we can say everything that happened
,” said the Minister of the Interior on BFMTV, “
it is obvious that when something happens in premises of the State ... one might think that the State is responsible
".
Gérald Darmanin recalled that the circumstances of the aggression of the independence activist, convicted for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998, are the subject of a judicial inquiry, an administrative inspection as well as parliamentary hearings.
The parents, wife, brother, sister and two children of Yvan Colonna "
consider that the prison administration is legally responsible for his death
", said Wednesday Me Patrice Spinosi, one of the family lawyers. .
The duration of the assault - nearly eight minutes - of the Corsican detainee by Franck Elong Abé, a radicalized detainee convicted in particular of terrorism, without the supervisors intervening, sparked an explosion of anger in Corsica, with sometimes violent demonstrations.