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Yvan Colonna is dead. The 61-year-old Corsican independence activist, jailed after being convicted of the murder of prefect Erignac, did not survive the injuries inflicted by an Islamist extremist on March 2 in Arles prison. He had been in a coma since the assault. “The autonomist movements of Corsica had accused the French authorities of not having protected the life of Colonna, who on the island is considered not as a terrorist but as a hero of the local identity. For this reason, demonstrations had taken place in different cities, from Corte to…