Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, two members of the Érignac commando, were transferred to Borgo prison, in Corsica. This transfer comes after the fatal attack on Yvan Colonna in detention. The rapprochement with their family, demanded for a long time by the two detainees, was particularly awaited.
With our correspondent in Ajaccio, Marie-Francoise Stefani
Relatives, faithful friends did not believe it. Until the plane carrying Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri landed on the runway at Bastia airport on Monday April 11. A gendarmerie helicopter picked up the two members of the Érignac commando on the tarmac as soon as they got off the plane and transported them to a gendarmerie cantonment. From there, the two men left in black cars, escorted by the gendarmes to the prison of Borgo.
” The time to return to their land has arrived after too many years spent in French prisons, we will always be by their side “, declared Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, president of the Assembly of Corsica. ” Unfortunately, it took an absolute tragedy for that. “, Lamented the nationalist deputy Jean-Félix Acquaviva, who added that he was now waiting for a process to settle the Corsican question.
In a very tense context, marked by Ivan Colonna’s deadly assault at the Arles central remand center, Prime Minister Jean Castex had announced, in a spirit of appeasement, the lifting of the status of particularly flagged detainees and their transfer to a Corsican prison. Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, presented as the head of the Érignac commando, had been asking for their transfer to Corsica since 2015. This claim had provoked numerous demonstrations and mobilizations.