Special envoy to Ajaccio (Corse-du-Sud)
Wreaths of flowers in memory of the prefect Érignac, a tribute with lyrical accents and a sign of openness sent to the nationalist leaders.
In Ajaccio, Gérald Darmanin commemorated, on Monday, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of the prefect, while trying to relaunch a stalled dialogue with elected officials.
On Place Claude-Érignac, where the senior official was shot on February 6, 1998, the Minister of the Interior and Overseas France hailed “
a great servant of the State
”.
"
Never again
": "
This cry obliges us to build lasting peace
", he underlined, before the president of the Executive Council of Corsica, the separatist Gilles Simeoni - only his former separatist allies did not participate at the ceremony.
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From the prefect Érignac, Gérald Darmanin invited to take up the "
example
" and the "
courage
".
With a stated objective, in the name of Emmanuel Macron: "
Write a new page in the history of Corsica
".
The state “
reaches out its hand to the innumerable…
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