The meeting between elected corses and government will not take place on Friday. Macron has packaged the dialogue at “return to order”.
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Interview Monday, April 4 at the morning of France Inter, Emmanuel Macron rang the knell of the meeting that was to be held on Friday, April 8 at the Ministry of the Interior to open “a historical process of discussions” between The State and Corsica, according to the report established on March 16 at the end of the meetings between the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the Island elected officials. The demonstration held on Sunday, April 3rd in Ajaccio in “tribute” in Yvan Colonna, sentenced to the perpetuity for the assassination of the Prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, erected in martyr of the nationalistic cause since his mortal aggression by a coorderer -Djihadist, was the manifestation of too much.
Once again, after all nationalist families and their representatives, including the President of the Executive Board, Gilles Simeoni, took place behind a “Status Francese Assassinu” banner (“Assassin State”), it ended up On the outskirts of the prefecture by violent clashes with the police who continued until late in the evening. This time, the president candidate put the holà. “The calm and the return to order are a prerequisite for anything and what I still saw this weekend is unacceptable, unacceptable, including with politicians at the top of the procession, sentenced Macron. So there will be no discussion with people who behave like that. “
Shortly after, by a letter addressed to the President of the Corsican executive, Mr. Darmanin said “compelled to postpone the next Friday meeting”. “In the last two weeks, it is to recognize that the conditions for a standardized dialogue are hardly reunited,” the Minister of the Interior stresses, recalling that “nearly 43 actions or events took place, almost all enamelled of violent overflows, in the presence of elected officials, which are supposed to participate in the discussions provided for in Paris “.
Simeoni disputed
In the immediate future, Mr. Simeoni did not wish to react to the announcement of this “postponement”, which, in any case, puts an end to the desire to open a new cycle of discussions on The statutory, economic and social future of the island before the presidential election. Some of his relatives nevertheless lamented this stop. Quoted by Corse-morning, the member (Freedoms and Territories) Jean-Félix Acquaviva, National Secretary of Femu in Corsica, the party of Mr. Simeoni, believes that “the President and the Government are afraid of the critics made by their opponents and the French public opinion of a loss of authority “. His colleague Paul-André Colombani sees only one “pretext”, while the third nationalist Corsica, Michel Castellani, deplores this “bad news”.
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