The state "will have to be accountable" if Yvan Colonna dies as a result of his attack by a fellow prisoner on Wednesday in Arles prison, where he was detained for the assassination of the prefect Erignac.
“The state was legally responsible for Yvan Colonna's safety.
If he dies, the prison administration and the whole of the political hierarchy on which it depends will have to render accounts”, accuses the family of the Corsican independence activist.
In a press release sent by Me Patrice Spinosi, her lawyer, she also expresses "her anger and incomprehension".
In this text, the family of Yvan Colonna explains that they want to "ask the State for reason for the murderous aggression" of which he was the victim and as a result of which he finds himself between life and death, in a coma, in Marseille, after being transferred from Arles hospital (Bouches-du-Rhône).
Yvan Colonna in a state of post-anoxic coma
Victim "of strangulation with his bare hands, then of suffocation", while he was doing bodybuilding on Wednesday morning in a room in the prison of Arles, Yvan Colonna was on Wednesday evening in a state of post-anoxic coma, a type of coma resulting from oxygen deprivation in the brain, specified the prosecutor of Tarascon.
His attacker was serving a nine-year prison sentence for "criminal association with a view to preparing an act of terrorism", explained the magistrate.
According to two sources familiar with the matter, this man is a 36-year-old Cameroonian "jihadist", arrested in Afghanistan in 2012 by the Americans before being handed over to France in 2014.
“For ten years, he has asked to be imprisoned in Corsica with his family”
"How could such a 'highly flagged' inmate be so savagely attacked by a fellow inmate?
“, insists the family, evoking this status of “particularly reported detainee” (DPS) which has so far prohibited the rapprochement of Yvan Colonna in a Corsican prison.
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“For ten years, in application of common law, he has asked to be imprisoned in Corsica with his family.
For essentially political reasons, his requests were systematically refused”, insists the family, considering that this tragedy “in itself demonstrates the failure of the exceptional prison status to which he was unjustly subjected.
A failure that he risks having to pay with his life.
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