The commission des Lois de l’Assemblée nationale a donné à l’unanimité are feu vert ce mercedi à la création d’une commission d’enquête autour de l’aggression mortelle en mars d’Yvan Colonna, qui avait aroused une très forte émotion in Corsica.
On March 2, Yvan Colonna, a Corsican independentist who was serving a life sentence in the Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) for the murder of the prefect Claude Erignac, was violently attacked in the sports center by Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old age who was serving several sentences, including a nine-year sentence for “terrorist criminal association”.
He died of his injuries after three weeks in a coma.
“The Island Society’s Thirst for Justice and Truth”
The centrist group Liot exercised its drawing rights to launch this commission of inquiry, presenting a resolution by the deputy for Haute-Corse Jean-Félix Acquaviva.
It intends to shed light on “the conditions in which” the alleged murderer “could benefit from classification in ordinary prison (…) and not be subject to the stages of detection of radicalization in prison.” He also wants to “study the genesis and the conditions in which Yvan Colonna’s status as a specially denounced prisoner was maintained.”
“What is at stake is the island society’s thirst for justice and truth,” argued Jean-Félix Acquaviva, considering that the hearings in the Assembly had revealed “contradictions”, in particular regarding “the evaluation of the radicalization” of the alleged murderer.
Work completed in six months
This commission, which will be made up of a maximum of thirty deputies by proportional representation of the groups in the Assembly, will deliver its work within a maximum period of six months. The Liot group hopes to start work “in December or January at the latest.”
“I hope that he will make significant progress towards the demand for truth and justice,” reacted Gilles Simeoni, autonomist president of the Corsican executive council.
“Now we are waiting for all the light to be shed on the circumstances of this murder,” declared the autonomist president of the Corsican Assembly, Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis.
Do not interfere in the judicial investigation
“The commission must take care throughout its work not to focus its investigations on matters of exclusive competence of the judicial authority,” recalled Caroline Abadie (Renaissance), rapporteur for the text creating said commission.
“Only the judicial investigation will be able to clarify the reasons for the aggression, and define the responsibilities and possible complicities,” he insisted.
Two judicial processes are open: an investigation for “murder in connection with a terrorist company”, a second for violation of the secrecy of instruction. A report from the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) estimated that the supervisor in charge of the wing where the Corsican separatist was found showed a “clear lack of vigilance” by remaining “for no reason far away” from the place, which lasted nine minutes. .
The former director of the Arles prison and a supervisor will be subject to “disciplinary proceedings”, Élisabeth Borne announced in July.
Source: BFM TV
