Claude Érignac was a former French

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 prefect on the island of Corsica

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Érignac was born in Mende, Lozère

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. In 1996 he went to Ajaccio

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 in Corsica

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 to take office as the Prefect

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 of Corse-du-Sud

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. He was assassinated at 9:15 p.m. on 6 February 1998. Corsica

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n nationalist militant Yvan Colonna

Yvan Colonna

Yvan Colonna is a Corsican nationalist convicted of assassinating the prefect of Corsica, Claude Erignac on 6 February 1998. He is the son of Jean-Hugues Colonna, a former deputy of the French socialist party in the Alpes-Maritimes constituency and a recipient of the French Légion d'honneur.-...

 was suspected of the killing, and was arrested in 2003. He was found guilty for the third time in June 2011 for the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment

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In the ministry of the interior at place Beauvau

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, a salon has been named after him.