Emmanuel Macron calls for “calm” and “responsibility”

Emmanuel Macron called on Tuesday March 22 on France Bleu at “calm” and at the “responsibility” after the death of Yvan Colonna attacked by a fellow prisoner in the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) where he was imprisoned. The Corsican activist was serving a life sentence for his participation in the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac in 1998. His attack had provoked violence on the island for several days.

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“The most important thing is indeed that the calm is maintained, that the discussions continue and that we can all be attached to the Corsicans living betterinsisted the president. This presupposes precisely this spirit of calm and responsibility”did he declare. “I also want to have a thought, obviously, first of all for his loved ones, his family. But I will also have a thought for the Érignac family, bereaved. It was the whole Republic that was attacked at the time of the cowardly assassination of the prefect “he continued.

The President of the Republic praised the role of Gérald Darmanin and local elected officials. “The work of appeasement that the Minister of the Interior did was necessary” and “The messages also calling for calm from elected officials were necessary and they all did it. I want to salute the spirit of responsibility of all elected officials and the Republic. I think we must all be very vigilant” , he pointed out.

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Emmanuel Macron assured that all the light will be shed on the circumstances of Yvan Colonna’s attack: “A man is dead and it is a serious situation. A report has been requested. Consequences will be drawn because we cannot allow such acts to be committed in our prisons”, he said. The first conclusions of the administrative investigation into the aggression of Yvan Colonna must be made public at the beginning of April. The final conclusions of this investigation, conducted by the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ), will be known in early July. A judicial inquiry is also open. She is now open for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, learned franceinfo from a judicial source.