Revolt of young nationalists, discussion on autonomy, criminal and parliamentary investigation… One year to the day after the death of Yvan Colonna, independence activist killed by a jihadist prisoner in the central house of Arles, what remains? of spring 2022 and this conflagration that Corsica had not known for years?
In the days following the attack, thousands of people gathered in the streets to march behind a banner with a slogan as divisive as it was accusatory, carried by a generation of young nationalists: "Statu francese assassinu" (French state assassin).
For nearly three weeks, the murder of the man who was sentenced for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in Ajaccio on February 6, 1998, put the island in turmoil.
Demonstrations follow one another, with a violence rarely seen in Corsica.
There is a rather worrying questioning of nationalist elected officials by young people, who feel betrayed by their politics
Jean-Martin Mondoloni, elected from the regionalist right to the assembly of Corsica
In an attempt to put out the fire, the Élysée urgently sent the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, who undertook to discuss the future of the island, until…
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