Victim of a violent attack on March 2 in Arles prison, where he was serving his life sentence, the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna died.
Yvan Colonna, the Corsican independence activist sentenced to life for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, died Monday evening following his attack in Arles prison on March 2, his family announced to AFP, via his lawyer. Patrice Spinosi. “The family of Yvan Colonna confirms his death this evening at the Marseille hospital. They ask that their mourning be respected and will not make any comment”, specified Me Spinosi to AFP, by text message, thus confirming information also obtained by AFP from a police source and initially given by the daily Le Parisien.
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Sentenced to life
Aged 61, the Corsican independence activist was arrested in July 2003 for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in February 1998 in Ajaccio, after four years on the run in the maquis. He always denied the facts. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 2007 and then life imprisonment with a 22-year security sentence on appeal in 2009, he was sentenced a third time to life imprisonment (without security period) in 2011 after the cancellation by the Court of Cassation of the verdict of appeal for defect of form. Imprisoned in Arles, Yvan Colonna made several requests for reconciliation in Corsica, all refused.
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