Coffin of slain Corsican nationalist Colonna arrives for church ceremony

Coffin of slain Corsican nationalist Colonna arrives for church ceremony   -  
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Several hundred people accompany the coffin of Yvan Colonna through the streets of Cargèse, Corsica, to the Latin church where his funeral is taking place. The pro-independence activist, a local, was fatally attacked by a fellow inmate in Arles prison, where he was serving his sentence for the 1998 assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.

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