The head of state participated Thursday in Corsica at the last stage under high protection of his tour de France as part of the "great national debate".
Emmanuel Macron lamented Thursday in Cozzano, Corse-du-Sud, not to have heard "regrets" on the assassination of the prefect Érignac in 1998 from the nationalists. According to the head of state, they risk "stammering history", saying that "the Corsicans deserve better than trench warfare".
He responded to Bonifacio Mayor Jean-Charles Orsucci who urged him to "find the words of peace" and restore the dialogue between Corsica and the State. Otherwise, "there will be no status quo, Mr. President.We will go to dark days," he had launched during this final displacement of the head of state in the context of the great debate.
Macron "assumes" to have paid homage to Érignac
"Do not wake up to violence", solemnly launched the head of state in front of some 160 elected Corsican during a debate under surveillance in the village of Cozzano, boycotted by the nationalists who had "invited" Wednesday to come before the Assembly of Corsica. "I do not answer as president of the Republic at the convocation before a territorial assembly or it is a deep loss of landmarks," he said. For him, "the Corsicans deserve better than trench warfare or position," he said.
"I totally assume" to have come in February 2018 pay homage to the prefect Érignac assassinated twenty years earlier, in 1998, saying "not to have heard the same regret" about this crime. And for him "those who want today to defend the Corsican identity, must also do this work of memory and know how to say things." As much the page was turned on Aléria, as much I did not hear the same regrets on the assassination of Préfet Érignac ". "As long as some people will not have the courage to say 'It's a wound, our scar and family suffering Érignac is also ours', they will stammer history," he threw under applause .