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1:06 p.m. : Jean-François Ricard, the anti-terrorism public prosecutor, also announced that Franck Elong Abé’s police custody has been lifted with a view to his indictment for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and ” terrorist criminal association”. Jean-François Ricard underlined that it was the “fifth” terrorist crime committed in a prison establishment in France since 2016.
1:03 p.m. : A judicial investigation will be opened for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “terrorist criminal association”, announces the anti-terrorism public prosecutor.
1:19 p.m. : On these images, we see that Franck Elong Abé rushed on Yvan Colonna and jumped on him brutally. For more than 8 minutes, Yvan Colonna was assaulted. “The systematic relentlessness deployed by the respondent leaves little doubt about the homicidal intentions” of Franck Elong Abé, assures the anti-terrorism prosecutor.
1:18 p.m. : Jean-François Ricard recounts the sequence of events that took place in Arles prison on March 2. Yvan Colonna came down from his cell to go to the gym. At 10.10 a.m., Franck Elong Abé joined the sports hall which he had to clean. The gym’s surveillance camera showed what happened between the two men.
1:18 p.m. : “Once again, Islamist fanaticism is behind a terrorist crime in our country”declares Jean-François Ricard, the anti-terrorist prosecutor about the aggression of the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna.
12:11 p.m. : The family of Yvan Colonna, in a coma after an attack by a fellow prisoner, called for the mobilization in Corsica to be relayed “beyond nationalist circles”. “We will be in thought at the side of this youth who, tomorrow Sunday, calls for a mobilization by which they wish to denounce what Corsica is undergoing, just like our family today after so many others”wrote the Colonna family in a letter transmitted by Christine Colonna, the sister of the former shepherd.
12:06 : Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old Cameroonian, was serving a nine-year prison sentence for “criminal association with a view to preparing an act of terrorism”. He was taken into custody for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise”. France 3 Corse Viastella summarizes what we know about this attacker.
12:10 p.m. : The Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna, 61, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, was violently attacked by a fellow prisoner, Franck Elong Abé, who strangled him with his bare hands then suffocated, putting him in a coma. During his press conference, the anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard must return to the circumstances of this attack.
12:29 : It’s time to take stock of the news.
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