Questions within France Télévisions after removal of a report on aggression Yvan Colonna

Broadcast at the same time France 3 Corsica and France 3 Marseille, a subject with images of the aggression of the nationalist activist has been quickly removed from their websites.

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AUTOCENSURE OF FRANCE TELEVISIONS OR INDUSTED PURPOSE OF A Government Anxious to bring calm to Corsica? This is the question in the undertaking since the management of the public audiovisual group ordered, Thursday, March 17, in the evening, the withdrawal of its website of any link or reference to a report of the writing from France 3 Corsica on aggression, March 2, from Yvan Colonna, within the Prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Distributed, Thursday, at the 19-hour televised newspaper, at the same time on France 3 Corsica and France 3 Marseille, the subject, viewed by Le Monde, reveals the unfolded, images fixed in support, of the Attack of which the nationalist activist sentenced for the assassination was a victim, in 1998, from the Prefect Claude Erignac. Lasting one minute and thirty-six seconds, you can see Yvan colonna enter the gym at 9:22 am less than an hour later, at 10:13 am, Franck Along Abé, convicted, in 2015, for facts of jihadism, arrives in the corridor at the height of the room. Accredited with housework, as an auxiliary, he enters leaving his broom and bucket outside.

The Corsican nationalist is then installed on the belly, the bust slightly straightened, on a bodybuilding apparatus. His aggressor closes the door. It turns around and seems to check by the eyelet if people are nearby. Then he takes his momentum and jumps on his victim’s back and begins, the hands still covered with his yellow household gloves, to strangle Yvan Colonna. Then he grabs a plastic bag to smother it. The assailant leaves the room at 10:22 by crossing a supervisor who he indicates that the Corsican nationalist has just done a discomfort. Finally, the pictures show Franck Along Abé in the process of resumeing his household business.

Family shocked by these images

The prison guard discovers the unconscious Corsican prisoner. It is 10:24, less than ten minutes after the annoyance of Franck Along Abé who is challenged in his cell and recognizes that he has committed this act to “avenge his God”. The two investigations in progress – judicial, open, March 3, for “attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise” by the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office, and administrative, by the general inspection of justice -, will undoubtedly allow shed light on all the facts.

The report takes care not to show degrading images from the victim. This Scoop of France 3 Corsica brings, moreover, an additional element to the premeditated dimension of the act and contradicts, in some respects, the official version. Before the Commission of the laws of the National Assembly, Wednesday, March 16, the director of the prison administration, Laurent Ridel, assured that the door of the weight room where Yvan Colonna and Franck Elong Abé, had remained open, What is denied by the surveillance images revealed by France 3 Corsican.

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