Gérald Darmanin postponed until January the trip he was to make next Thursday and Friday in Corsica, considering in agreement with local elected officials that the climate was "
not favorable
", we learned on Sunday from the Ministry of l 'Interior.
"
The elected officials consider that in view of the climate of tension around the question of detainees and recent arrests, it is better to leave a little time for the tension to decrease
", we explained place Beauvau.
On Thursday, three people including Pierre Paoli, a Corsica Libera activist suspected of having been the leader of the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC), were arrested as part of an investigation into a clandestine press conference in 2021 and on fires that targeted the second home of a hotelier in La Clusaz (Haute-Savoie).
The elected members of the Assembly of Corsica had expressed their "
indignation
" in September after the rejection by the Paris Court of Appeal of yet another request for semi-freedom for Pierre Alessandri, 64, sentenced to life in 2003 for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac and releasable since 2017.
The Minister of the Interior had already postponed a visit to early October for similar reasons.
The trip planned for this week was to be an opportunity to sign "
transformation and investment plans for Corsica
" in Calvi, Ajaccio and Corbara, according to the minister's entourage.
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It was not part of the ongoing cycle of consultations on the future of the island, whose meetings are taking place in Paris, the same source added.
This cycle of consultations, launched in July, should be spread over a year with one meeting every six weeks.
So far, only one meeting has been held in mid-September.
