• Yvan Colonna died last March after his violent attack in detention by a fellow prisoner, in Arles prison.

  • In such circumstances, the law provides that the State compensates the family for the damage suffered.

  • For now, only part of the family has accepted this proposal, their lawyer said.

The state has offered around 200,000 euros in compensation to members of Yvan Colonna's family to repair the damage caused by his murder in prison and put an end to the proceedings against the administration, their lawyer said on Tuesday.



“As it stands, we have this proposal on the table and only part of the family has accepted it for the moment.

Things are not yet clearly determined, ”detailed master Patrice Spinosi, partially confirming information from Le

Canard enchaîné

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On behalf of the family of Yvan Colonna, the lawyer had filed, in early April in Marseille, an administrative appeal against the State after the death of the Corsican independence activist following his violent attack by a radicalized fellow prisoner, Franck Elong Abé, in Arles prison on March 2.

In this request, the total amount of damage to the family of Yvan Colonna, who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, was assessed at one million euros.

During the summer, the State submitted a proposal for lower compensation, for a total amount of “approximately” 200,000 euros, said Master Spinosi.

"However, it is a significantly larger sum than the usual scales," he said.

Compensation provided by law

If this proposal - which is not limited in time - were accepted by all of the eight applicants, including the parents of Yvan Colonna and his two children, the file would be closed without going through a hearing before the court. administrative.

“Everyone has the freedom to do what they want and to accept or not this proposal.

We will see more clearly in a few weeks, ”said the lawyer, recalling also that the responsibility of the State in this case was acquired under the very terms of the penitentiary code.

According to a law of November 2009, the State is systematically “required to repair the damage resulting from the death of a prisoner caused by violence committed within a prison establishment by another prisoner”.

Contacted, the Chancellery referred to the services of Matignon: the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, having been Yvan Colonna's lawyer, was removed from all of this file to avoid conflicts of interest.

Two legal proceedings are also open in connection with this death, which had aroused great emotion in Corsica: an investigation for "assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise", in which his alleged attacker is indicted, and a second for violation of the secrecy of the instruction, launched after the broadcast on France 3 of images of his lynching.

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