The Minister of the Interior goes to Corsica, Wednesday and Thursday, after two weeks of tension around the aggression of Yvan Colonna.
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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, Gérald Darmanin, to the daily 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 the Minister in this interview.
Gérald Darmanin will travel to Ajaccio and Porto-Vecchio, Wednesday and Thursday, after two weeks of tension around the attack on independence activist Yvan Colonna on March 2 in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône). There is was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, in 1998 in Ajaccio.
The prerequisite for a discussion between the Corsican elected officials and the government around the future of Corsica is a return to calm, insists the minister to Corsica Morning. “There can be no sincere dialogue in a democracy under the pressure of agricultural bombs and the presence, or omnipresence, of law enforcement.”