Matignon announces “disciplinary proceedings” against two agents of the prison of Arles

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced on Thursday July 28 “the initiation of disciplinary proceedings” against two agents from the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), after the submission of a report on the assassination of Yvan Colonna on March 2. This report concludes “failures” from them.

Matignon added in a press release that the Prime Minister has “decided to follow all the recommendations” of the report of the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ), seized after the violent attack by a radicalized fellow prisoner of the Corsican independence movement. The latter was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, in February 1998.

Elisabeth Borne will also ask the Minister of Justice “an inspection mission on the evaluation of neighborhoods for the evaluation and management of radicalization” (QER), a system deployed five years ago and whose “it seems necessary to draw up a balance sheet”.

According to the Matignon press release, the inspection mission concludes with a “lack of active vigilance” for one of the agents and to “inappropriate management of both video surveillance and orientation in the radicalization assessment district” for the other.

The IGJ report will be made public but anonymized, said Elisabeth Borne on Thursday. The report “Arrives in the hands of the government, and we have no idea what the government is going to do with it. It’s abnormal. In a democracy worthy of the name, this report would be published, and we could consult it”castigated Me Sylvain Comier, lawyer for Yvan Colonna, with France 3 Corse.

The advice of the Corsican independence activist “requested from the investigating judges that they be given the report, but also the preliminary report which was also to be made public, but which was not. We will thus have access to these documents which will be able to shed light the current instruction”explains Mr. Cormier.