Pierre Alessandri, one of the life sentences for the assassination of Prefect Erignac in Corsica, almost left his prison.

Following a hearing held on June 28, the anti-terrorism court (Tapat) decided to place him Pierre Alessandri, currently detained in the Paris region, on probationary semi-liberty in the prison of Borgo in Hautes- Corsica from August 20.

However, "the national anti-terrorism prosecution (Pnat) immediately appealed suspensive" of this decision, declared Me Eric Barbolosi, lawyer for Pierre Alessandri, confirming information from the weekly

Le Point

.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (Pnat) confirmed this appeal, which suspends the semi-liberty of the person concerned.

The court also granted parole effective August 20, 2023, Pnat confirmed.

"State revenge"

"The appeal being suspensive, nothing will happen until it is studied by the Paris Court of Appeal," said a judicial source.

“The decision of Tapat is perfectly justified and motivated in law and in fact with regard to the course of Pierre Alessandri.

We hope that it will be confirmed ", declared Me Barbolosi, specifying that the court of appeal had" two months to hear "the appeal.

Pierre Alessandri, 62, arrested with Alain Ferrandi in 1999, was sentenced in 2003 to life imprisonment, like Yvan Colonna, for the assassination of Prefect Claude Erignac on February 6, 1998. For several years, he and Ferrandi have contested the refusal of their rapprochement in a Corsican prison which they consider "discriminatory" and synonymous with "state revenge".

The Corsican people called "to stand ready to mobilize"

On Wednesday, Gilles Simeoni, the autonomist president of the Corsican executive council, described on Twitter the deliberations of Tapat as a “legal decision” and the appeal of the anti-terrorist prosecution as a “political decision”, “which gives priority to the spirit of vengeance over l 'demand for justice'.

The association for the defense of Corsican prisoners Sulidarita "denounced the pursuit of a systematic state revenge against Corsican political prisoners" and called in a press release "the Corsican people to be ready to mobilize, in order to demand French government a real political solution ”.

The lifting of their status of particularly signaled detainee (DPS) is necessary for any reconciliation on the island, which does not have any prison capable of accommodating this type of detainee.

In March 2020, the local prison commission of Poissy (Yvelines), where they are detained, issued a favorable opinion for this lifting but Prime Minister Jean Castex refused it on December 21.

Three days before, he had dismissed the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti from any decision relating to "the conditions for the execution of sentences and the prison regime" of the detainees involved in cases that the former lawyer, who defended Yvan Colonna, would have had to deal with.

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