“This overseer is a scapegoat. He is accused of everything when he only did his job to the best of his abilities and respecting the instructions given to him. For us, the faults that have been committed come from the prison administration as a whole, from the Ministry of Justice”, denounced to AFP Thomas Forner, Ufap delegate from Arles.
The Arles penitentiary in which Yvan Colonna was imprisoned, and where he died, sees its members jostled. One of the guards faces disciplinary proceedings. In solidarity, the Ufap Unsa Justice union called on Tuesday for the blocking of the prison, for this Thursday.
“We will block the establishment from Thursday 6:00 a.m. and for an indefinite period. No one will be able to enter or leave,” he announced, adding that other unions “should normally” join this action.
Disciplinary procedures wanted by the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced Thursday “the initiation of disciplinary proceedings” against the former director of the prison and a supervisor, after the submission of a report on the assassination of Yvan Colonna which concludes to “failures” on their part.
On March 2, Yvan Colonna was violently attacked in the sports hall of the central house by Franck Elong Abé, a 36-year-old man who was serving several sentences, including one of nine years for “terrorist criminal association”. He died of his injuries after three weeks in a coma. The supervisor in charge of the wing where the Corsican separatist was located, who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac, showed a “clear lack of vigilance” by remaining “without any reason away “from the place of the facts, which lasted nine minutes, concluded in particular the report of the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ).