The Florida Youth Liberation Front stands in full solidarity with our comrades in Corsica fighting against French colonialism. The killing of Yvan Colonna was a crime against humanity, but only a symptom of the larger problem being all the problems with his conviction.
Colonna was accused of assassinating a moderate French prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, who was even open to autonomy. Érignac’s successor was a hardline Republican who scoffed at any mention of self-determination for the Corsican people; thus it seems like a dubious choice of victim, and for this reason Colonna always maintained his innocence in the matter.
Corsica has been a French colony since 1768, with repeated rounds of pro-independence unrest. The riots in the aftermath of Colonna’s assassination have been the most recent example, forcing the government’s hand to the point that Macron is now offering autonomy to the island.
Freedom to all Corsican political prisoners! U statu francese tomba!