the parliamentary commission of inquiry points to a series of “failures”, “inactions” and “errors” by the authorities

The parliamentary commission of inquiry responsible for investigating the fatal attack of which the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna was the victim in Arles prison in March 2022 pointed to a series of “failures”but also ofinaction” and D’“errors” of the authorities, in its report published on Tuesday 30 May.

The commission, which heard 71 people during its six months of work, also notes “lack of supervision” at the central house in Arles. and “an attack of extreme violence which continued inexplicably”. The commission notably raises the question of the video surveillance system “paradoxically extensive but totally unusable on the day of the attack”.

The report makes 29 recommendations, divided into three areas: the “imperative reform” of the status of “specially reported detainee” (DPS), the “strengthening the detection and monitoring of dangerous radicalized detainees”and improved support for those with psychiatric disorders.

Yvan Colonna, who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, was violently attacked on March 2, 2022 in the prison sports hall by Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old radicalized man convicted especially in a terrorist case. The 61-year-old Corsican independence activist died three weeks later.