The family of the independence activist announced his death Monday night, a suites of his aggression at the prison of Arles on March 2, who revived the tensions on the island and brought Gérald Darmanin to say open to the Autonomy of Corsica.
Le Monde with AFP
The first reactions quickly flipped Monday, March 21st to the evening after the announcement of Yvan Colonna’s death, Corsican independence activist sentenced to the assassination of the Prefect Erignac, who succumbed to the injuries he had been inflicted during his aggression at the Prison of Arles, March 2nd.
“Yvan Colonna, Patriot Corsican, alive for eternity! We will always be at your side,” reacted on Twitter, in Corsica, the Femu party in Corsica of Gilles Simeoni, the senior official of the Executive Board of The island. “Yvan colonna, dead for Corsica”, posted, always in Corsica, Core in frounder, the main independence party, accompanying his message from a black and white photo of the activist flanked by the message “To you the embrace of this Terre “.
The only elected in Corsica to react in his own name was Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, the Seno President of the Corsica Assembly, who presented his “condolences and support” to the family of Yvan Colonna.
Silent gatherings in Bastia and Ajaccio
The Corsican militant has been doubly hailed in Spain. On Twitter, the National Assembly of Catalonia presented its “condolences (…) to the entire Independent Corsican movement”, while recovering its “support for protestable mobilizations”. “Two peoples, a fight. Solidarity and condolences”, greeted the Basque Party out.
The announcement of his death did not upset the calm on the island of Beauty Monday night. In Bastia, only a few dozen people gathered, in front of the grids of the courthouse, where they hung two strips struck by the slogan “St. Francesse Assassinu” (“Assassin State”). Another gathering was held in Ajaccio, in front of the cathedral, in silence.
The only message of anger has come from the association of defense of Corsican political prisoners, sulidarita, which, via his Secretary General, tweeted: “Woe to this French State Assassin.”
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“On Yvan Colonna, it’s a drama, and I call to keep calm and cool and not to jumble Corsica,” said the party candidate the Republicans (LR) at the presidential election, Valérie Pécresse, on CNEWS, following sometimes violent events of the last weeks. For the right candidate, “we do not negotiate under the pressure of the street, we will negotiate [on the autonomy of Corsica] when the order will come back”. “I want this decentralization, I am a regionalist and patriot and European, I am not afraid to give power to the regions, but if we give autonomy, it must be with obligations of result,” he developed.
For its part, the Member of France unsuitsed ( LFI] Eric Coquel