Elected officials, residents, nationalist activists … Hundreds of people came to attend the funeral of Yvan Colonna in the village of Cargèse in Corsica on March 25, 2022. The separatist had been fatally attacked by a fellow prisoner in the prison where he was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac.
In Paris, the government did not appreciate the strong tributes of the Corsican leaders to Yvan Colonna. Flags of the Corsica community at half mast, a minute of silence at the time of the funeral of Yvan Colonna, autonomist leaders who say they salute the child of the country and not the one who was condemned by justice for the assassination of a prefect.
At the microphone of Charlotte Derouin, analysis by Antoine Franzini, historian, researcher at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, author of the book A century of Corsican revolution 1729-1802.