the State offered 200,000 euros in compensation to the family

The state has offered approximately 200,000 euros in compensation to Yvan Colonna’s family members following the murder of the Corsican activist in prison. This proposal intends to put an end to the lawsuits against the administration, lawyer Patrice Spinosi told AFP on Tuesday, November 8. “As it stands, we have this proposal on the table and only part of the family has accepted it for the moment. Things are not yet clearly determined”he detailed, partially confirming information from the chained duck.

On behalf of the family of Yvan Colonna, the lawyer had filed, in early April in Marseille, an administrative appeal against the State after the death of the separatist, who died after being attacked by a radicalized fellow prisoner, Franck Elong Abé, in Arles prison on March 2. Yvan Colonna was serving a life sentence there for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998. In this request consulted by AFP, the total amount of damage to Yvan Colonna’s family had been estimated at one million euros. euros.

The proposal is not time-limited. If it is accepted by all of the eight applicants, including the parents of Yvan Colonna and his two children, the file will be closed without going through a hearing before the administrative court. “Everyone has the freedom to do what they want. We will see more clearly in a few weeks”asserted Patrice Spinosi.

“However, this is a significantly larger sum than the usual scales.”

Patrice Spinosi, lawyer for Yvan Colonna’s family

at AFP

The lawyer also recalled that the responsibility of the State in this case was acquired according to the terms of the penitentiary code. According to a law of November 2009, the State is systematically “responsible for compensation for damage resulting from the death of a detained person caused by violence committed within a prison establishment by another detained person”.