The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced, Thursday, July 28, “the initiation of disciplinary proceedings” against two agents of the prison of Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône) after the submission of a report on the assassination of Yvan Colonna in March.
The mission highlights, according to a press release from Matignon, “disciplinary breaches” of two staff due, “on the one hand, a lack of active vigilance, and on the other hand, inappropriate management of both video surveillance and orientation in the radicalization assessment district”.
Matignon added that the Prime Minister has “decided to follow all the recommendations” of the report of the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ), seized after the violent attack by a fellow prisoner of the Corsican independence movement, who was serving a life sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.
An anonymized version of the report will be made public
The recommendations are twelve in number, and the first six, addressed to the new head of establishment of the central house of Arles, concern “improvement of control rules” and the “control and articulation of video surveillance” to allow immediate action. The last calls for the evaluation of the implementation of the prison measures of the interministerial plan for the prevention of radicalisation.
The detainee who attacked Yvan Colonna, Franck Elong Abé, is radicalized and has since been indicted for attempted terrorist assassination. The Corsican separatist died of his injuries in Marseille, after three weeks in a coma.
The government then requested a report from the General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) to shed light on the circumstances of this attack, which aroused anger and controversy. This report was submitted to the Prime Minister’s office and not to the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, because the latter, as a former lawyer for Yvan Colonna, is forced to withdraw from everything relating to the independentist.
Traveling to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges on Thursday, Mme Borne assured that, “in accordance with the commitment that had been made”this ratio would be ” released “ in an anonymized version, “so as not to reveal the names of the persons concerned”.