It is a document that highlights the "failings" of the administration. The parliamentary commission of inquiry publishes this Tuesday its report on the fatal attack of Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna in Arles prison in March 2022.
The report is due to be published online later today, and committee chairman Jean-Félix Acquaviva (Liot MP for Haute-Corse) and rapporteur Laurent Marcangeli (MP for South Corsica, Horizons) will hold a press conference at the Assembly at 17 p.m.
Six months of work for the commission
Yvan Colonna, who was serving a life sentence for the murder of Prefect Claude Erignac, was violently assaulted on March 2, 2022 in the prison's sports hall by Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old radicalized man convicted in a terrorist case. The 61-year-old Corsican independence activist died three weeks later.
During its six months of work - 71 people heard during 37 hearings - the commission focused on the prison treatment of Franck Elong Abé, the circumstances surrounding the assault and the reasons for maintaining Yvan Colonna's status as a "detainee particularly reported" (DPS). With a question in the background: why was Franck Elong Abé in ordinary detention and how could he find himself alone with Yvan Colonna for 15 minutes?
The hearings, in particular of the head of the anti-terrorist prosecutor's office, the head of the prison administration, and that of prison intelligence, highlighted the worrying profile before and during the detention of Franck Elong Abé, also classified DPS, who went to fight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in the early 2010s and who multiplied the incidents in prison. According to the commission, he nevertheless benefited from an astonishing "leniency", "at the antipodes" of Yvan Colonna's "excessively rigorous" prison treatment.
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