This statement in the press by Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin comes just before his two-day visit to the island on Wednesday. A trip to try to stop the violence in Corsica.
It’s a sentence that will make noise. For the first time the French executive clearly evokes discussions to go as far as the autonomy of Corsica.
This is Gérald Darmanin in an interview granted to Corsica Morning who made this shocking announcement. The Minister of the Interior made it clear that he was going to initiate a ” unprecedented discussion around the institutional issue “. A process that he says will be “ logically committed during the second term of the President of the Republic “, if Emmanuel Macron is re-elected.
Gérald Darmanin insists as a prerequisite for a return to calm on the island before any negotiation. “ There cannot be sincere dialogue in a democracy under the pressure of agricultural bombs and the presence, or omnipresence, of the forces of order “. Corsica which is the theater of violence for two weeks and the attack on Yvan Colonna in prison. Yvan Colonna who is serving a life sentence for his participation in the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998 in Ajaccio.
Gérald Darmanin also recognizes a ” responsibility of the State in the aggression of the nationalist militant. “ There is a responsibility of the State as protector of the people who are under its responsibility, in this case prisoners he says, pledging to do the truth about what happened “. The separatist, assaulted by a fellow prisoner imprisoned for terrorism, is still in a coma.