The semi-freedom of Alain Ferrandi, sentenced to life in 2003 for having taken part, within a commando, in the assassination in Corsica of the prefect Claude Erignac, officially took effect this Friday.
Shortly before 8 a.m., the 62-year-old detainee left Borgo prison (Haute-Corse), after 24 years of imprisonment in total, under the modest outpourings of joy from his relatives, according to images from local press journalists.
Conditional liberation
About twenty people, including a few journalists, were waiting for him in front of the remand center, where he had been transferred on April 11, 2022 after the violent demonstrations following the fatal attack, which took place at the central prison in Arles (Bouches -du-Rhône), Yvan Colonna, another sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination on February 6, 1998 of the prefect Erignac.
Since 2017, the end of his security period, Alain Ferrandi had been refused a semi-freedom regime twice.
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On February 23, the court for the application of anti-terrorist sentences finally granted him semi-freedom for a probationary year and conditional release for ten years, as it had done a month earlier for Pierre Alessandri, third member of the commando sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac.
Alain Ferrandi must go for the first time this Friday to his workplace, on a farm in Castellare-di-Casinca (Haute-Corse), and will then return to sleep in his cell, at the Borgo remand center.
The semi-freedom granted on January 31 to Pierre Alessandri paved the way for a resumption of discussions between the State and Corsican elected officials on the institutional future of the Mediterranean island.
A first round of exchanges took place at the end of February in Paris, in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, while new discussions should be held before the summer.
