La Cour d´assises spécialement composée vient de condamner Yvan COLONNA à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité, assortie d´une peine de sûreté de 22 ans par une justice solidaire du pouvoir politique au titre de la raison d´État et animée d´un esprit de vengeance. Cette décision est injuste. Elle n´est hélas pas une surprise, tant les débats avaient démontré, aux yeux des observateurs impartiaux, que cette Cour se refusait, par principe, à envisager toute autre hypothèse que celle de la culpabilité. Yvan COLONNA a toujours affirmé son innocence et continue de la clamer. Cette condamnation intervient dans des conditions scandaleuses, qui bafouent les règles du procès équitable, telles que définies par la Convention européenne des droits de l´homme : déloyauté, partialité, violations multiples et répétées de la présomption d´innocence, instruction uniquement à charge, violation des droits de la défense, dissimulation d´éléments à décharge.

Caring little about the presumption of innocence, Nicolas Sarkozy announced the arrest of Yvan Colonna in 2003, accusing the suspect of being the assassin of the prefect Érignac. Yvan Colonna was ultimately declared guilty, he always claimed his innocence and no material proof was ever found against him.
The prefect Érignac was not directly killed by the nationalists, but by a paid killer, immediately exfiltrated towards Angola where he was hired to the security of the Elf group.
The mobile of the crime was precisely connected to the previous functions of Érignac, responsible for the African networks at Pasquas cooperation ministry.

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CORSICAN NATION 'S

1729/1769, the War of independence:

This war was really the Corsican Revolution and forced Genoa which was on the wane, to repeatedly call on the intervention of Austria and then looked to France for help.
Four insurrections shook Corsica, and from these violent jolts was born together with Ghjuvan'Petru Gafori, the feeling of belonging to a nation, then the desire to win independence. This was led by Pasquale de' Paoli. From the insurrection of the "mountain dwellers" begun in Castagniccia, pillaging Bastìa, to the rallying calls for emmancipation of the leaders of towns, the movement reached the whole island.

These troubles only stirred up the competition in Mediterranean of the great powers involved in the War of Succession of Austria: England, helped by Sardinia, (under which Corsica suffered attacks) and Spain allied to France.

The fourth revolt, started by the French troops, saw the murder of Gaforri in 1753 in Corte, and unity was accomplished in 1755 centered around the leadership of Pasquale de' Paoli, general of a Corsica which would be independent for 14 years.

Pasquale de' Paoli, who was recognised as having the makings of a head of state, inspired public opinion and European intellectuals. Until then, Corsica was a piece of land which was unknown.

Corsica and its main fervent democrat, features in the books of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ("The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right", "Projet de Constitution") and above all in the books of the Scottish writer James Boswell ("Account of a tour to Corsica").
Pasquale de' Paoli, a man of progress, known for his adaptationion of democratic ideals to the realities of 18th century Corsica.

He gave Corsica a capital - Corti - a university and he set up the structures of a state in which the "Corsican nation" is sovereign.

1768 the Treaty of Versailles - 1789 : integration with French's Empire by a French decree.

Corsica, the only independent island of the Mediterranean, had nevertheless a flimsy army.
France which had seen, at the expense of an ambiguous policy, its influence grow, in the Mediterranean in general and particularly in Genoa, found itself granted Corsica in 1768 by the Treaty of Versailles. The armed resistance opposed by the Corsica of Pasquale de' Paoli ended with their defeat at Ponte-Novo the 8th of May 1769.

2009, Corsican's resistance for freedom continues!