Corsica still mobilized on the eve of the visit of the Minister of the Interior

The tension does not go down on the island of Beauty. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, will be in Corsica on Wednesday March 16 “to open a cycle of discussions on the future of the island“.”He comes at a time of very high tension here, where demonstrations have been taking place for more than ten days now.“, explains journalist Alexandra Lay, special correspondent in Corte (Haute-Corse).

Among the Corsican demonstrators, many young people. In Bastia (Haute-Corse), high school students have been blocking the entrance to their establishment for ten days. They are protesting against the attack on Yvan Colonna by a radicalized prisoner in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), on March 2. For these young people, the assassin of the Érignac prefect is a figure of Corsican identity. Sunday March 13, in Bastia, clashes broke out between the demonstrators and the police. This demonstration had been initiated by the nationalist student unions. For political scientist André Fazi, Yvan Colonna’s aggression has brought back demands for more autonomy.