After Pierre Alessandri, it is Alain Ferrandi who, this morning, was able to taste the semi-freedom regime for the first time, after 24 years of detention. He will nevertheless find his cell this evening, before starting his activity within an agricultural company from Monday.
It is 7:40 this morning when Alain Ferrandi crosses the doors of the penitentiary center of Borgo, smiling. Outside are waiting for his loved ones.
Like Pierre Alessandri, another emblematic detainee of the Erignac commando, when he was released on semi-freedom on Tuesday February 14, Alain Ferrandi made no statement. He is also forbidden to speak about the case in the press.
From now on, the detainee, who has been imprisoned since May 1999, will be employed during the day on a farm in Casinca, in Castellare-di-Casinca. Before returning to Borgo, each evening, and finding his cell.
Today will be devoted to administrative formalities, before work begins on Monday.
This new regime will also allow him to go twice a month to his relatives, one weekend to his mother, and the other to his sister. But it goes hand in hand with several prohibitions: Alain Ferrandi does not have the right to come into contact with the other members of the “Erignac commando”, must refrain from any public intervention, and will not have the right to surrender or in Ajaccio, nor in Pietrosella. These are the places where the assassination of the prefect took place in 1998 and the attack on a gendarmerie barracks.
On February 23, the court for the application of anti-terrorism sentences granted the 62-year-old prisoner a one-year probationary parole. The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office refrained from appealing, unlike last year.
Indeed, on May 24, 2022, the Court of Appeal, which had then been seized by the PNAT, had rejected a decision of first instance which had already granted probationary semi-freedom to Alain Ferrandi.
And a few years earlier, in 2019, the latter, accessible to a sentence adjustment since 2017, had already been refused a first request.
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It is essentially the same route that Pierre Alessandri had to follow, a member like him of the “Erignac commando”, responsible for the death of the prefect of Corsica, assassinated on February 6, 1998 in Ajaccio. They had both been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2003.
The third member of the commando, Yvan Colonna, had been sentenced to the same sentence in 2007, 2009 and 2011.
After years of demanding for reconciliation and the lifting of their status of Particularly Supervised Detainee, the prison fate of Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri accelerated during the period of tension which followed the attack and the death by Yvan Colonna in March 2022.
A few weeks later, on April 11, they were transferred to Borgo prison.
But the semi-freedom to which they had been claiming for years continued to be refused to them, which weighed heavily on relations between Paris and Corsica, to the point of causing the suspension of the discussions which had just opened, for a possible autonomy. from the island.
Even if the thread of the dialogue has been renewed, these semi-releases occur in a still troubled island context, while the attacks have resumed in Corsica, and the FLNC-UC and 22 October claimed responsibility for 17 actions on Tuesday March 21 island. And that a new group GCC Ghjuventù Clandestina Corsa formalized its creation on February 7 through a press release also claiming several actions.