Tribune. Mr. President of the French Republic and candidate for the next presidential election, Corsica is reviving dark hours, suspended from the last breath of life of a man, Yvan Colonna, convicted of the murder of Prefect Erignac [en 1998] and imprisoned for nineteen years following three trials and a referral to the European Court of Human Rights for undermining the presumption of innocence.
This prisoner, who was the most wanted man in France, with the status of particularly reported prisoner (DPS) [statut levé le 8 mars par le premier ministre Jean Castex], was the subject of an assassination attempt on March 2 in the sports hall of the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône). His attacker, also DPS, is a jihadist considered particularly violent by the prison administration. He fulfilled auxiliary missions, precisely incompatible with his status.
Yvan Colonna, 61, was therefore beaten several times by this 36-year-old man who crushed his throat with his foot, then suffocated him with towels and a plastic bag to which he had access as part of his duties. . This scene, however filmed by surveillance cameras, lasted several minutes in the absence of any third party, the guards having intervened, according to the prison administration itself, only when the author of the aggression there. invited [il leur a signalé que le détenu corse avait fait un « malaise »].
Yvan Colonna is, at this moment, between life and death, in a very serious condition and, at the time when you will read this open letter, no one knows how his condition will have evolved. The announcement of this unprecedented attack caused shock waves in Corsica, raising several questions.
First, questions regarding the facts:
- How can a Corsican nationalist detainee with DPS status, closely watched, who is systematically refused reconciliation in a prison on the island on the pretext that he might escape and that he would be dangerous for the Republic, can he find himself , alone, in the presence, of another DPS?
- How can this other inmate, described as singularly violent by the prison administration and known for serious assaults in the prison environment, find himself alone with Yvan Colonna?
- Why is the aggressor a work assistant in prison even though this status is prohibited for violent prisoners?
- Why, while the scene is retransmitted on a monitoring screen, nobody intervenes?
- Why did the successive interior ministers remain deaf to the warnings of the President of the Executive of Corsica on the threats to which Corsican political detainees were subjected by radical Islamists?
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