Assault on Yvan Colonna: Justice grants a suspended sentence to the assassin of Prefect Erignac

Detained in Arles for the assassination, in 1998, of the prefect Erignac, Yvan Colonna is still between life and death after being attacked by another radicalized prisoner. A “terrorist act, like the assassination of Samuel Paty”, judged Wednesday the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. This Thursday, the justice granted a suspension of sentence “for medical reasons” to the independence activist, AFP learned from a judicial source. A recurring request from his lawyers.

The law provides that a prison sentence may be suspended in the event of a life sentence.