Edit of 2:30 p.m.: around 2 p.m., several police and ministerial sources announced the death of Yvan Colonna following his attack. Information then denied by a medical source.
Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in Corsica, was violently attacked on Wednesday by a fellow prisoner. Taken care of in serious condition, he was initially announced dead to the Parisian by several police and ministerial sources. But around 2:30 p.m., a medical source announced that he was still in serious condition. According to our information, he would have been placed on a respirator in intensive care.
Detained in the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), he was transferred to the hospital of the same city this Wednesday, seriously injured following being beaten by another prisoner, indicated a little earlier a source confirming policewoman information from BFMTV.
The facts took place in the courtyard, when a detainee, for reasons which are not yet known, violently attacked Yvan Colonna with his bare hands, it was specified from the same source, adding that the judicial police had been seized.
“Degrading treatment” in prison
Yvan Colonna was convicted of the murder of the prefect of Corse-du-Sud, Claude Erignac, on February 6, 1998. The shepherd of Cargèse had been on the lookout for several years before being picked up by police. on July 4, 2003 in Porto-Pollo, near Propriano.
At the end of January, Corsican MPs warned of the conditions of detention of Yvan Colonna, who was under special surveillance due to his status as a “particularly well-known prisoner”. Claiming that he was being subjected to “degrading treatment from a legal point of view”, these Corsican nationalist deputies had requested his transfer to the island in order to bring him closer to his family.
