The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, is eagerly awaited on the Isle of Beauty. He will travel to Ajaccio and Porto-Vecchio, in Corse-du-Sud, Wednesday March 16 and Thursday March 17, after two weeks of serious tension around the attack in prison of the independence activist Yvan Colonna. The latter was sentenced for having assassinated the prefect Erignac in 1998. On March 2, he was violently attacked by a fellow radical Islamist, in the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône).
“NOTWe will not agree this Wednesday and this Thursday”conceded Gérald Darmanin in a press conference after the Council of Ministers in Paris on Wednesday morning. “The process that can lead to a possible legislative evolution [de la Corse] cannot be done in the 20 days that separate us from the first round of the presidential election.”
Gérald Darmanin also mentioned the idea of “agree on a timetable”, “din the months or years to come”as well as a possible “Polynesian status”, without however giving more details on this status. Follow our live.
“We are not in a position today to self-regulate”, recognizes a former leader of the FLNC. Guest of franceinfo, Léo Battesti, former leader of the FLNC (Corsica National Liberation Front), co-founder of an anti-mafia collective, ensures that the Corsicans are “so under pressure and so disorganized” that they don’t put back “not in question the sovereign powers” from France. “There is a form of assistantship in these areas which is essential”explains this Corsican entrepreneur.
It’s not “not yet a victory, neither for me nor for the Corsican people”, warns Gilles Simeoni. The president of the executive council of the Corsica community, guest of franceinfo on Wednesday, believes “important” than “the Minister of the Interior, in the name of the Prime Minister, and probably of the President of the Republic, says today publicly that the government and the State are ready to enter into a historic discussion”.
The government “ready to go as far as autonomy”. A strong statement, on the eve of a two-day visit to the Island of Beauty. “We are ready to go as far as autonomy” for Corsica, assured the Minister of the Interior on a daily basis Corse-Morning on the evening of Tuesday, March 15. “Afterwards, the question is to know what this autonomy is. We have to discuss it”, continues Gérald Darmanin in this interview.