A week after the attack in prison, in mainland France, of the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna, condemned for the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac in 1998, the demonstrations multiplied in the island, at the call of students, d nationalist organizations or trade unions accusing the French State of bearing a heavy responsibility.
Yvan Colonna was imprisoned in the central house of Arles. He had been asking for a long time to be brought back to Corsica, which was systematically refused to him because of a status of “particularly reported detainee”. How to interpret these increasingly violent demonstrations which target symbols of the French state? The decryption of Thierry Dominicidoctor in political science and member of the Montesquieu Research Institute, at the University of Bordeaux.