CORRECTION. Yvan Colonna, convicted of the assassination of Prefect Erignac, is brain dead after being attacked by a fellow prisoner
Incarcerated in Arles for several years, the Corsican prisoner was violently attacked in the courtyard.
Remedy. In opposition to what France-info reported in a past variant of this article, Yvan Colonna isn't dead. He is in a condition of mind demise. This underlying data depended on a few verifying sources yet was gone against by other similarly solid sources. Franceinfo apologizes to its perusers for this mistake.
Yvan Colonna, finally convicted in 2011 for the assassination of Prefect Erignac, is in a state of brain death, Wednesday, March 2, sources said. He was attacked by a fellow inmate in the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), earlier Wednesday. Found seriously injured, he was hospitalized in an absolute emergency.
According to our information, his attacker is 36 years old and is imprisoned for radical Islamism. He attacked Yvan Colonna during a sports activity in the prison yard. Citing an "assault", without further details, the Ministry of Justice announced the opening of an investigation by the public prosecutor of Tarascon. The general inspection of justice will also be seized, at the request of the Prime Minister, adds the Chancellery in its statement.
Aged 61, Yvan Colonna was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Corsican prefect Claude Erignac - facts that he has always disputed. Incarcerated for several years at the central prison in Arles, he made several requests to be transferred to Corsica, all of which were refused.
A long run before his conviction
On the evening of February 6, 1998, the prefect of Corsica, Claude Erignac, was shot several times in the back in a street in Ajaccio, as he walked to the theater. This assassination, claimed by an anonymous group, sent shock waves through public opinion.
In May 1999, four men were arrested. They confessed and accused Yvan Colonna. The shepherd, who became the most wanted man in France, spent several years on the run in the Corsican maquis before finally being arrested in July 2003.
Eight years later and after three trials, Yvan Colonna was sentenced in June 2011 to life imprisonment. The court motivated its decision in particular by the statements of the other members of the commando and their wives. At the first trial in 2003, some defendants had exonerated him. An appeal in cassation was rejected in 2012, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled inadmissible a complaint by Yvan Colonna for violation of his presumption of innocence in 2016, definitively validating his sentence.
Who is Yvan Colonna
Yvan Colonna, born April 7, 1960, in Ajaccio (Corsica), is a Corsican pro-independence activist who was prosecuted for the assassination of Prefect Claude Érignac on February 6, 1998, in Ajaccio and convicted of this crime in the first instance on December 13, 2007.
He is the son of Jean-Hugues Colonna, born in Cargèse and former socialist deputy of the Alpes-Maritimes, and his wife Cécile Riou, of Breton origin (southern Finistère).
professional background
Yvan Colonna was born on April 7, 1960 in Ajaccio. In 1975, his entire family moved to Nice where Jean-Hugues Colonna, his father, then a physical education teacher, had been transferred. After obtaining his Baccalaureate D, Yvan Colonna began studying to become a physical education and sports teacher. He abandoned them in 1981 and returned to Corsica.
He settled in Cargèse, where he started raising goats. He was active in nationalist movements close to the FLNC. He is suspected of having participated in several attacks in the region, but his involvement has never been proven.
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