PARIS (Reuters) – Protestors in the northern Corsican city of Bastia attacked public buildings and threw projectiles at police on Sunday in the most recent demonstration over an assault on a jailed nationalist at a mainland French jail.
A protest that gathered 7,000 individuals in mid-afternoon turned violent as round 300 hooded people used Molotov cocktails and different projectiles to focus on police and state establishments, setting hearth to a public tax workplace, the native prefecture stated in an announcement.
There have been 38 injured in the continued clashes, together with 24 police officers, the prefecture stated in an replace at 8 p.m. native time (1900 GMT).
There have been numerous demonstrations on the island of Corsica in the previous week, together with some clashes with police, in outrage over the strangling of Yvan Colonna by a fellow inmate at a jail in southern France.
The assault left the Corsican militant in a coma and led to renewed requires nationalist prisoners to be transferred from the French mainland to the island. [L5N2V62VV]
Colonna is serving a life sentence for the 1998 homicide of Claude Erignac, who as prefect of Corsica embodied the facility of the French state on an island with a historical past of separatist violence.
(Reporting by Gus Trompiz)
