Who was Yvan Colonna? Here’s what we know about his death.
Yvan Colonna was a French Corsican nationalist.
He was serving a life imprisonment sentence in Toulon-La Farlède detention center for the assassination of Corsica’s perfect, Claude Érignac. He recently passed away.
Corsican: Yvan Colonna Wikipedia Bio -Who Was He?
According to Wikipedia, Yvan Colonna was a convicted French Corsican nationalist.
He was born on 7 April 1960 in Marseille, France, as the son of Jean-Hugues Colonna. His father was a former National Assembly member of the Socialist Party. He served in the Alpes-Maritimes and French Légion d’honneur.
Yvan completed his Baccalauréat (French high school) but halted further studies in 1981 and moved to Corsica. After some time, he migrated to Cargèse, where he took up a goat-herding occupation.
Then, he joined a Corsica nationalist militant faction close to the FLNC. Many terrorist act allegations, including an attack at Pietrosella’s Gendarmerie Nationale police station on 6 September 1997, were against him.
On 6 February 1998, Corsica’s perfect, Claude Érignac, got assassinated. He died after three 9 mm bullets pierced him in the neck. The weapon used in the incident was from the 1997 police station attack.
Following the event, the police arrested several militants. The investigation accused Yvan of the murder, but he fled and got arrested on 4 June 2003.
Then a court in Paris pronounced him guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment on 13 December 2007.
On 2 March 2022, in Toulon-La Farlède detention center, 36-year-old Franck Elong Abé, a former Jihadist Cameroonian inmate, attacked Yvan allegedly for disrespecting prophet, Muhammad. As a result, the 61-year-old died of his wounds on 21 March.
The assault and the prison authorities’ failure caused violent protests, the biggest in decades. The unrest prompted the French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin to offer Corsica autonomy. Likewise, President Emmanuel Macron said that the idea wasn’t taboo anymore.
Yvan Colonna Wife – Married Life Explored
Yvan Colonna’s widow is Stephanie Colonna.
He passed away on 21 March 2022, leaving his wife behind. However, they had wed in 2011. The couple had a child, Ghjaseppu, later that year.
Yvan’s wife tried her best to defend him for the past decade.
Before his marriage to Stephanie, he had one child, Jean-Baptise (born in 1990), from his first wife.