"I am in favor of there being a written document" so that "everything we have said (is) recorded in time, as a commitment by the State and the Community", declared the minister during of a press conference at the prefecture of Ajaccio, on the second day of his visit to Corsica.
"The ministers engage the word of the State", replied the minister on Thursday: "What I say, (...) I am able to write it. I do not have two types of words, I do not I have only one, I am like the Corsicans, a man of honor. And so I will write and I will obviously engage the word of the Republic".
"Whether we will agree at the end of these many difficult discussions, I am not sure, but let's start with this dialogue", he nevertheless specified.
Concerning the possible rapprochement at the Corsican Borgo prison of Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, the two other members of the + commando Erignac +, sentenced like Yvan Colonna to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998 in Ajaccio, following the lifting of their status as "particularly flagged detainee" (DPS), he repeated that "under no circumstances will the government be able to take a decision under pressure from the street: "As long as there is violence, it cannot there be a rapprochement".
He recalled the "judicial appointment" of Alain Ferrandi on April 21 before the Paris Court of Appeal, which must rule on his request for adjustment of sentence under a semi-freedom regime in Borgo.
Recalling the violence that has taken place on the island since the attack on Yvan Colonna in his prison in Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), from which he is still in a coma, he stressed that these have caused "130 injuries" among the police.
"I was engaged on the yellow vests, it was below what happened", told the minister Thursday, in the presence of the press, a gendarme engaged in particular on the demonstration of Sunday in Bastia.
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