The two men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac. The continuation of their detention in Corsica has long been demanded by nationalists
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The government is committed to a rapprochement in Corsica of the two detainees of the Érignac commando, Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, at the Borgo prison “by summer”, learned franceinfo Wednesday March 16 from the entourage of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin.
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Arrived in Corsica on Wednesday for a three-day visit whose aim is to restore calm, Gérald Darmanin met at the beginning of the evening in Ajaccio the families of Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, also learned franceinfo from the entourage of the Minister.
The status of particularly reported detainee (DPS) of Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi had been lifted “in a spirit of appeasement” Friday March 11 by Prime Minister Jean Castex, paving the way for a rapprochement in Corsica, at the Borgo prison center (Haute-Corse). The reconciliation of these two detainees currently imprisoned in Poissy (Yvelines) is a long-standing claim, which has become a major political point of tension in Corsica since the attack on Yvan Colonna in his prison in Arles, on March 2, and two weeks of violence on the island.
Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri were sentenced in 2003 to life imprisonment for the murder of Claude Erignac. They were part, with Yvan Colonna, of the commando which killed the prefect of Corsica in a street of Ajaccio, on February 6, 1998.