The case had set fire to the powder.
This Tuesday, nine people were arrested in Corsica and placed in police custody in the investigation into the damage suffered by the gendarmerie of Porto-Vecchio (Corse-du-Sud) on March 11, following a demonstration of support for Yvan Colonna.
Among them, "four individuals (are) minors and five adults", specifies in a press release Nicolas Septe, the prosecutor of Ajaccio, adding that they were heard for "the offenses of degradations committed in meeting and degradations by means dangerous for property or persons”.
On March 11, following a demonstration by high school students in support of the independence activist Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac and who died after being attacked at the central house of Arles (Bouches-du -Rhône) on March 2, a group of demonstrators approached the gendarmerie barracks in Porto-Vecchio.
Damage "for almost two hours"
"For nearly two hours, a group of individuals engaged in intense actions intended to degrade the premises of the gendarmerie", specifies the prosecutor.
"If no intrusion into the barracks will be observed, the throwing of cinder blocks, stones, torn tiles, Molotov cocktails, will cause numerous destruction and damage both to the premises and vehicles of the gendarmes and to the private accommodation and personal vehicles of the soldiers of the gendarmerie, ”adds the magistrate.
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He notably detailed that “five service vehicles were damaged” and five other “personal vehicles” as well as “four dwellings hit by projectiles, two of which penetrated the living rooms”.
There is also damage to the brigade's access door, broken windows and the deterioration of surveillance cameras, the call terminal, the automatic opening system of the south gate, fences, he continues.
At the time of the facts, the prosecutor had specified that the authors risked “10 years of imprisonment”.
A source within the Corsican gendarmerie told AFP that “40 to 50 virulent and hooded people” had “tried to force their way into the barracks”, in vain.
Yvan Colonna's attack sparked demonstrations in Corsica, most of which were punctuated by violence and other public buildings were degraded, such as the court in Ajaccio and the public finance court in Bastia.