France: two members of the Érignac commando transferred to a Corsican prison
Excerpt from a video showing Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, arriving in a convoy as they are transferred to Borgo prison, near Bastia, this Tuesday, April 11.
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Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, two members of the Érignac commando, were transferred to Borgo prison, in Corsica.
This transfer comes after the fatal attack on Yvan Colonna in detention.
The rapprochement with their family, demanded for a long time by the two detainees, was particularly awaited.
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With our correspondent in Ajaccio,
Marie-Françoise Stefani
Relatives, faithful friends did not believe it.
Until the plane carrying Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri landed on the runway at Bastia airport on Monday April 11.
A gendarmerie helicopter picked up the two members of the Érignac commando on the tarmac as soon as they got off the plane and transported them to a gendarmerie cantonment.
From there, the two men left in black cars, escorted by the gendarmes to the prison of Borgo.
“
The time to return to their lands has arrived after too many years spent in French prisons, we will always be by their side
,” said Marie-Antoinette Maupertuis, president of the Assembly of Corsica.
"
Unfortunately, it will have taken an absolute tragedy for that
", regretted the nationalist deputy Jean-Félix Acquaviva, who added that he was now waiting for a process of settlement of the Corsican question.
In a very tense context, marked by
the deadly attack on Ivan Colonna
at the central remand center in Arles, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced, in a spirit of appeasement, the
lifting of the status of particularly reported prisoners.
and their transfer to a Corsican prison.
Pierre Alessandri and Alain Ferrandi, presented as the head of the Érignac commando, had been asking for their transfer to Corsica since 2015. This claim had provoked numerous demonstrations and mobilizations.
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