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The day after the death of Yvan Colonna, condemned for the assassination of the prefect Érignac, Emmanuel Macron called for calm in order to avoid a new outbreak of anger on the island. The independence activist is described as a “martyr of the Corsican cause” by an island youth mobilized since his attack. Colonna’s aggression served as a catalyst for Corsican nationalist demands which have taken root there for years and which are gaining momentum especially among young people. Analysis by Jean-Louis Fabiani, professor of sociology at the Central European University in Vienna. Author of Sociology of Corsicapublished by La Découverte.