Incarcerated in Arles for several years, the Corsican prisoner was violently attacked in the courtyard by a fellow prisoner, according to information from France Télévisions.
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Yvan Colonna, definitively condemned in 2011 for the assassination of the prefect Erignac, is hospitalized in absolute emergency after being found seriously injured in the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) after a fight with a fellow prisoner, learned France Televisions from a source familiar with the matter, Wednesday March 2. His attacker was imprisoned for radical Islamism and attacked him in the courtyard, according to our information.
Sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect of Corsica Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998 – charges he has always denied – Yvan Colonna, 61, has been imprisoned for several years at the central house in Arles. Contacted by France 3 Corse, the lawyers of the Corsican nationalist shepherd declare that they do not have further information for the time being.
In 2016, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected his complaint concerning his imprisonment, definitively validating his sentence.