Yvan Colonna is between life and death. This Wednesday, March 2, the man, imprisoned for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in Ajaccio in 1998, was the victim of a serious attack by a fellow prisoner in Arles where he is serving his sentence revealed Le Parisien. AFP says Yvan Colonna is “in serious condition”, alarming enough to be rushed to Arles hospital on a ventilator. His vital prognosis is engaged. According to BFMTV, the fellow prisoner, author of his attack, had been convicted of terrorist criminal association and would have joined the Jihad in Afghanistan in the past. The nature of the attack and the circumstances are not known. However, they are significant enough for Yvan Colonna’s state of health to raise questions: first announced seriously injured, the 61-year-old Corsican was finally announced dead by Le Parisien before the daily backtracked and confirmed that he was always”between life and death“.
After the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in Ajaccio, strong suspicions, mainly supported by testimonies, weighed on Yvan Colonna. The latter then went on the run before being arrested in the town of Olmeto five years later. A long series of trials then began. In 2007, Yvan Colonna was sentenced to life imprisonment. Justice was not more lenient on appeal since it validated life imprisonment as well as a 22-year security sentence. In 2011, after a third and final trial, the Corsican shepherd was indeed sentenced to life imprisonment without a security period this time. Yvan Colonna’s appeal was dismissed.
In 2018, Stéphanie, the wife of Yvan Colonna, had arrested the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron. Residing in Corsica with their son, she denounced the impossibility for their boy to see his father and asked for the transfer of his companion to a prison on the island of beauty. A request that Emmanuel Macron did not honor. However, Yvan Colonna was geographically closer to his family during his sentence. After being initially imprisoned in Fresnes in the Paris region, he was transferred to Toulon and then to Arles prison where his terrible attack took place on March 2, 2022.