Stephane Burgatt edited by Wassila Belhacine
Clashes took place between young people and the police, on the night of Thursday to Friday, causing some minor injuries, following the attack on Yvan Colonna in Arles prison. Gilles Simeoni, President of the Executive Council of Corsica, spoke on Thursday March 9 with Prime Minister Jean Castex in order to find solutions to this crisis.
Corsica flared up again on the night of Thursday March 10, more than a week after the assassination attempt on Yvan Colonna in Arles prison and while the nationalist activist is still in a coma. The scuffles continue between demonstrators and police in the main cities of the island.
A tense night in Bastia and Corte
In Ajaccio, CRS de-encirclement grenades rang out late into the night in a little game of cat and mouse around the prefecture. Mostly hooded young people tried to wait for CRS by throwing glass bottles. At least five people, women and men aged around 20, were arrested. Some were slightly injured. These overflows are on a smaller scale compared to those of the night of Wednesday March 9, which had caused a fire to start following an intrusion into the Ajaccio courthouse.
The situation was more tense last night in Bastia and especially in Corte, in the center of the island, where there are reports of molotov cocktails being thrown at the sub-prefecture. The Corsican nationalists, militants or political representatives, demand the lifting of the status of DPS, particularly reported detainee of the two other members of the Erignac commando, which would allow their transfer to a prison on the island of Beauty. Gilles Simeoni, President of the Executive Council of Corsica, spoke on Thursday March 9 with Prime Minister Jean Castex in order to defuse the crisis.