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4 unusual facts about Yvan Colonna


Yvan Colonna

On the 6th of February 1998 at 9:05 pm, the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac, was assassinated as he exited a theatre onto rue Colonna-d'Ornano in Ajaccio.

However, an infrared camera set in the mountains of Corsica, near Vico as surveillance of a "bergerie", a traditional Corsican stone hut, yielded evidence that Colonna was hiding here.

He broke off his studies in 1981, returning to Corsica, and moved to Cargèse where his brother later opened a beach bar.

Yvan Colonna is a Corsican nationalist convicted of assassinating the prefect of Corsica, Claude Érignac on 6 February 1998.



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