Yvan Colonna is a Corsican nationalist convicted of assassinating Claude Érignac, the prefect of Corsica, on 6 February 1998. He is the son of Jean-Hugues Colonna, a former deputy (MP) of the French socialist party in the Alpes-Maritimes constituency and a recipient of the French Légion d'honneur.He was born in Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud in 1960. In 1975, his family moved to Nice. After he completed his Baccalauréat (French high school), he studied to become a teacher of physical education and sports. He broke off his studies in 1981, returning to Corsica, and moved to Cargèse where his brother later opened a beach bar. There, he took up goat herding, a common occupation in Corsica. He joined a nationalist militant faction close to the FLNC, and is suspected in several terrorist acts in the region. He is notably suspected to have taken part in an attack at the police station in Pietrosella. Wikipedia
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