2019/12/17

The oldest Corsican political prisoner has been freed


Charles Santoni, sentenced in 1999 to 28 years in prison for the murder of a Raid police officer in 1996 in Aiacciu, has been free on Tuesday. The man served his sentence "without a day's permission, (..) bracelet, semi, or conditional. Without political concession from the state, without amnesty, "said the French state.

Charles Santoni should be released in July 2019, after having served his sentence for murder, but his detention was lengthened by a new sentence to six months in prison, in October 2017, by the Bastia Court of Appeal for death threats on a counselor from the penitentiary service of integration and probation of the penitentiary center of Borgo (Haute-Corse).


Charles Santoni had been sentenced on November 25, 1999 by the Paris Special Assize Court to 28 years' imprisonment for the murder of a Raid police officer and two attempted murders of Raid police officers, on April 16, 1996 in Aiacciu. He had opened fire with his friend Jean-Luc Orsoni, who died in the shooting, on an unmarked police car whose occupants they allegedly took as killers, in the midst of conflict between the movements of the ex-FLNC (Corsican National Liberation Front).

He had been, on March 17, 2011, the first Corsican detainee incarcerated on the continent to be transferred to Borgo prison, following the commitments of the Minister of Justice, Michel Mercier, in favor of bringing together island prisoners and their relatives. .

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