The transfer to the radicalization assessment district (QER) in 2019 of the detainee prosecuted for having killed Yvan Colonna in 2022 was "
useless
" since his "
dangerousness
" was "
proven
", justified on Wednesday the national anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard .
On March 2, Yvan Colonna, who was serving a life sentence in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, was violently attacked by Franck Elong Abé, a man 36 years old sentenced to several sentences including one of nine years for terrorist criminal association.
The Corsican independence activist died a few weeks later.
Notice reserved for transfer
In July 2019, the National Anti-Terrorist Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) issued an unfavorable opinion for a transfer to a QER in the Paris region of this man who went to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in the early 2010s. Requested by the registry of Condé prison -sur-Sarthe (Orne), where Elong Abé was then imprisoned, the Pnat had issued "
a very reserved opinion on a transfer to QER from the Paris region, given his criminal and prison profile
", explained Jean-François Ricard before the deputies of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the fatal attack on Yvan Colonna.
“
Franck Elong Abé had already committed multiple violent actions (…) He set his cell on fire almost every three days.
The QER assessment
, which aims to determine whether a detainee for acts of Islamist terrorism can be incarcerated in conventional detention or in a neighborhood with reinforced security, "
was useless at the time
", continued Jean-François Ricard. .
His "
dangerousness
" was "
proved
" by "
his past and his behavior in detention
", he insisted.
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According to a psychiatric report from July 2014, cited by the prosecutor, his "
personality is structured in a psychotic mode but does not present any psychiatric danger
" and the "
disharmony of his personality
" brings "
a form of impaired discernment
".
According to the magistrate, "
a QER decided in July 2019 would have been risky
" and "
was not appropriate
".
Jean-François Ricard also recalled why the Pnat quickly seized the judicial information on the assassination of Yvan Colonna: the "
duration
" and the "
extreme violence
" of the aggression and its "
religious
" motive.
invoked by the suspect, namely the "
blasphemies
” that Yvan Colonna would have pronounced according to his attacker.
