A prison assault last week that left prominent Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna in a coma has triggered days of angry protests and whipped up resentment against the French state on an island with a history of separatist violence.
Yvan Colonna, once France’s most wanted man, remained in a coma on Friday at a hospital in Marseille after he was brutally attacked on March 2 by a fellow detainee serving time for terror offences. The assault has stoked anger in Corsica, where some still see Colonna as an icon of the island’s resistance against the French state.
