The state of health of Yvan Colonna has aroused great interest in recent days. Incarcerated in Arles prison, the 61-year-old Corsican had been violently attacked by another prisoner during a sports session. He had undergone strangulation with bare hands, then suffocation “Leaving him in serious condition. Taken to hospital in a state of absolute emergency, his vital prognosis was at stake. There is no longer any hope. Transferred to an establishment in Marseille, Yvan Colonna is dead this Monday, March 21, as announced by Le Parisien. He did not survive the numerous wounds that his attack had left on him.
On March 2, a man, also a prisoner in Arles prison, very violently attacked Yvan Colonna for a religious dispute. Alone in a room, the prisoner threw himself on the Corsican, inflicting strangulation and suffocation on him. Plunged into a post-anoxic coma – a consequence of the lack of oxygen to the brain for a certain time -, Yvan Colonna had been transferred to a hospital in Marseille. Unfortunately, the care provided was not enough to save his life.
Yvan Colonna was the father of a little boy named Joseph, born of his relationship with Stéphanie. The latter had asked at the time that her companion be transferred to a Corsican prison so that her son could see his father. Yvan Colonna had been imprisoned since 2003 for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, which occurred in 1998. A time on the run, Yvan Colonna was finally found, tried and sentenced to life imprisonment.