Anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-François Ricard will speak this Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on the violent attack at Arles prison which plunged Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna into a coma, the anti-terrorist prosecution (Pnat) has just announced.
This press conference will take place at the Paris Court of Justice, in the XVIIe district, said the Pnat in a press release.
On Wednesday, Yvan Colonna, 61, sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998, was violently attacked by a fellow prisoner, an ex-jihadist, Franck Elong Abé, who strangled him with his hands naked then suffocated, plunging him into a coma.
On Saturday, his state of health had not changed, said Me Patrice Spinosi, his lawyer and that of the Colonna family.
The attacker, a 36-year-old Cameroonian, was serving a nine-year prison sentence for “association of criminals with a view to the preparation of an act of terrorism”.
According to several sources close to the case, he explained to the investigators his gesture by a “blasphemy” attributed to Yvan Colonna.
He was still in custody on Saturday at the end of the day for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise”.
