Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin will travel to Corsica in early December, he announced on Tuesday, during a meeting with elected officials from the island as part of the congress of mayors and a month and a half after the postponement. of his on-site visit.
This visit, a priori scheduled for December 8 and 9, will not take place as part of the ongoing round of consultations on the future of the island, his entourage told AFP.
The minister
"undertook to come regularly to meet the Corsicans in Corsica"
, added the entourage.
The subject of the meetings that will take place on site has not yet been defined.
“A calm debate”
At the beginning of October, Gérald Darmanin was to go to Corsica to discuss the issue of waste and energy, in the presence of the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion Christophe Béchu, before giving up due to the lack of conditions for
“ a calm debate.
A few days earlier, the elected members of the Assembly of Corsica had expressed their "indignation" after the rejection by the Paris Court of Appeal of yet another request for semi-freedom from Pierre Alessandri, 64, sentenced to life in prison. 2003 for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac and releasable since 2017.
The interior minister, who pledged in March to discuss the island's future until potential autonomy, set up a strategic committee in July, four months after the deadly attack in prison of the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna.
The fatal attack on Colonna, another member of the Erignac commando sentenced to life imprisonment, had sparked violent demonstrations on the island.
This consultation cycle must be spread over a year, with one meeting every six weeks.