The approach does not “shock” the Minister of the Interior, “so that we say everything that happened”.
Asked this Thursday on BFMTV about the complaint filed the day before against the State by the family of Yvan Colonna after his fatal attack by a fellow prisoner on March 2 at the prison of Arles, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, Gérald Darmanin acknowledged that “it is obvious that when something happens in State premises, […] one can think that the State is responsible”.
Gérald Darmanin recalled that the circumstances of the aggression of the independence activist, convicted for the assassination of the prefect Erignac in 1998, are the subject of a judicial inquiry, an administrative inspection as well as parliamentary hearings.
An eight-minute assault without intervention
The parents, wife, brother, sister and two children of Yvan Colonna "consider that the prison administration is legally responsible for his death", said Wednesday Me Patrice Spinosi, one of the family lawyers. .
The duration of the assault, nearly eight minutes, of Yvan Colonna by Franck Elong Abé, a radicalized prisoner convicted in particular of terrorism, without the guards intervening, sparked an explosion of anger in Corsica, with sometimes violent demonstrations .
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