Justice suspends the sentence of Yvan Colonna, still in a coma after his attack in prison

Justice granted Yvan Colonna, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, the suspension of his sentence, confirmed to France Télévisions a judicial source and by one of his lawyers, Sylvain Cormier, Thursday March 17. The latter confirms that it is granted for a medical reason, the vital prognosis of Yvan Colonna being engaged. The Corsican nationalist has been hospitalized in a coma in Marseille since his attack by a fellow prisoner in Arles on March 2.

Requested by his lawyers, this measure was one of the demands of the demonstrators whose rallies have been shaking Corsica for two weeks.

This suspension is a logical consequence of the hospitalization of Yvan Colonna, estimated on France Inter Patrice Spinosi, lawyer for his family: “From the moment you have a condition incompatible with your detention, your sentence can be suspended.” If his condition improved, the sentencing judge could decide to incarcerate him again.

On March 8, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced the lifting of the status of “particularly salaried detainee” (DPS) of Yvan Colonna, which obstructed his requests for transfer to a Corsican prison to be closer to his family. Three days later, he took a similar decision concerning two other members of the Erignac commando still imprisoned, Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri.