Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri, the last two members of the commando who committed the assassination of the prefect Erignac, arrived at the Borgo prison in Corsica, this Monday, April 11.
Incarcerated in the central house of Poissy in the Yvelines, the two prisoners took a plane around 1 p.m.
On their arrival, the detainees were deposited under armed escort in the Corsican prison.
Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri were sentenced in 2003 to life imprisonment with Yvan Colonna, for the assassination of the prefect Claude Érignac.
An expected transfer
This rapprochement, demanded for a long time, was made possible by the lifting of their status “particularly reported detainee” by Prime Minister Jean Castex. As a reminder, last December, about fifteen parliamentarians had signed a column in the newspaper Le Monde asking that these three prisoners be able to serve the rest of their sentence in a Corsican prison.
On March 22, the Prime Minister then announced this transfer “by mid-April”. This decision came about ten days after the murder of Yvan Colonna in the central house of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) by another prisoner.
Sentence adjustment
The two detainees made a request for sentence adjustment several months ago. For Alain Ferrandi, the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal should fall on April 21. The detainee’s request had been accepted on February 24 at first instance but had been the subject of a suspensive appeal by the national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office.
On the side of Pierre Alessandri, it will be necessary to wait until May 12 to know the decision of the court for the application of anti-terrorism sentences. For the two detainees, the sentence adjustment requested provides for working outside during the day and sleeping in the Borgo prison in the evening.