There was no nationalist reception committee in front of the prison gates during the operation, which the administration wanted to keep quiet. Pierre Alessandri, 63, and Alain Ferrandi, 62, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Prefect Claude Erignac, were transferred to the Borgo prison in Haute-Corse on Monday morning, April 11.
The two detainees, who were serving their sentence in the central house of Poissy (Yvelines), were taken from their cell around 8 a.m. to be taken by plane to Bastia-Poretta airport. They were then escorted by helicopter to the nearby gendarmerie barracks, so that a convoy transported them by road, under good escort, within the penitentiary establishment, around 1 p.m.
MM. Ferrandi and Alessandri, who have been incarcerated since 1999, have integrated their individual cells into the prison’s so-called “historic” area, a source close to the case said. “On their arrival, part of the doors of the other detainees were closed, whereas they are traditionally open », she noted. Interpreting it as a welcome “at first cold but which finally relaxed in the afternoon”, in an establishment where prisoners had shown their support for Yvan Colonna, fatally assaulted in detention on March 2 at the Arles power station (Bouches-du-Rhône).
“Detainees like the others”
By joining the center of Borgo, which has 241 places – for currently 240 prisoners -, the two nationalists will be “detainees like the others”, says the same source. Although the upgrade to fire safety standards has been carried out recently, no specific development has been carried out to accommodate them. The detention centre, which has 52 CCTV cameras, plans to start work this summer, spread over eighteen months, in order to increase their number to 410, due to an attack on two guards by an inmate, in 2018.
These two detainees of the Erignac commando had been asking to benefit from family reunification for seven years. A measure that was opposed to them because of their status as particularly reported detainees (DPS). The processing of this request was not in the hands of the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who had deported himself for having been the lawyer for members of the Erignac commando and Yvan Colonna, but between those of the Prime Minister , Jean Castex.
Due to the tense climate and recent riots in Corsica, the latter had lifted the DPS status of MM. Alessandri and Ferrandi, March 11, “as a sign of appeasement”, then announced their transfer for mid-April. During his visit to Ajaccio in mid-March, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin confirmed this commitment in writing in a report that was to inaugurate a round of talks with island elected officials, which has since been put in parentheses. , following a demonstration that escalated in Ajaccio on April 3, where Gilles Simeoni, the president of the executive council of Corsica, had paraded.
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