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Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna in a coma after being attacked by fellow prisoner

Yvan Colonna, after he was arrested on 4 July 2003, in the south of Corsica, the island in the Mediterranean Sea, in a sheepfold near Propriano. © AFP

A day after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in Arles prison, southern France, Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna was still in a coma in Marseilles on Thursday morning, in a stable state, one of his lawyers said.

"It is not a question of improvement or deterioration," said Patrice Spinosi, his lawyer and that of the Colonna family, insisting that he was not brain dead.

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