Corsica, Macron considers Sunday’s violence “unacceptable”

Emmanuel Macron judged this Monday “unacceptable” the violence the day before in Corsica and affirmed that there would be “no discussion” without “return to prior order”. “What I saw this weekend is unacceptable, including with political leaders at the head of the procession”, he said on France Inter, the day after clashes during a demonstration for Yvan Colonna, the murderer of the prefect Erignac fatally attacked in prison by another prisoner. A new demonstration, in which Gilles Simeoni, the autonomist president of the executive council of Corsica, took part in particular, took place on Sunday afternoon in Ajaccio. It degenerated into violent clashes between 150 to 200 young people, often hooded and equipped with gas masks, and the police, while clashes also occurred near Bastia. According to Emmanuel Macron, the assassination of Yvan Colonna in prison is “serious and unacceptable”, but the latter “is not a hero” because “he was condemned several times” and was “the cowardly assassin of the prefect Érignac ” in 1998. .@EmmanuelMacron on Corsica: “I have not changed my line. I am in favor of any development if it meets the needs of the population. Autonomy is not independence, and the autonomy is not an end in itself. #le79Inter #Elysée2022 pic.twitter.com/Poj4bc6UxA — France Inter (@franceinter) April 4, 2022 “The Republic cannot accept that a detainee be shot in these conditions by another detainee, and that is why I will take very clear action based on the reports and all the facts given to me,” he added. But “the return to order is a prerequisite for everything”, warned the Head of State, while the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin had undertaken to open negotiations this week on “the all of the Corsican issues”, including “the institutional evolution towards a status of autonomy still to be specified”. “There will be no discussion with people who behave like this,” said Emmanuel Macron. “I am in favor of any development if it meets the needs of the population. That’s why I have always said ‘there is no taboo'” but “autonomy is not independence and “is not a goal in itself,” he stressed. READ ALSO. The demonstration in memory of Yvan Colonna in Ajaccio