the scuffles in front of the sub-prefecture of Corte continue, a burnt car

The scuffles in front of the sub-prefecture of Corte (Haute-Corse) during the demonstration of support for Yvan Colonna, continue Sunday March 6 at 5:45 p.m., reports France Bleu Frequenza Mora. A car is on fire against the anti-riot barriers set up in front of the sub-prefecture, Cours Paoli.

Clashes broke out around 3:45 p.m. during this demonstration, which gathered 4,200 people according to the prefecture, 15,000 people according to the organizers. Demonstrators with masked faces threw projectiles, stones and Molotov cocktails. Security forces responded with tear gas. The procession was blocked by riot cages on arrival in front of the city’s sub-prefecture, 200 meters from the building. An important safety device is put in place. 150 CRS and mobile gendarmes landed in Ajaccio and Bastia on Thursday morning.

Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, was assaulted on Wednesday in Arles prison by another prisoner and has since been between life and death. The call for this gathering was born during a general assembly of the nationalist family at the call of the student unions. The student unions at the origin of this rally are at the head of the procession, in the company of elected nationalists, with a banner “Statu francese assassinu” (French state assassin).

“I understand and I share” the anger of the Corsicans, assured Sunday March 6 on franceinfo Emmanuel Mercinier-Pantalacci, the lawyer of Yvan Colonna before adding: “In any case, whatever precisely happened, there is an acquired and definitive responsibility of the State. The law provides that the prisoner should serve his sentence near his home. If the law had been respected, facts of this nature would not have happened, that is certain.”