Riots shake France’s Corsica over assault on jailed nationalist

Violent clashes have broken out between protesters and police on France’s Mediterranean island of Corsica over the assault in prison on a nationalist figure. Yvan Colonna, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination in 1998 of Corsica’s top regional official Claude Erignac, is currently in a coma after being beaten on March 2 in jail by a fellow detainee serving time for “terror” offences. Al Jazeera’s Laura Burdon-Manley reports. - Subscribe to our channel: - Follow us on Twitter: - Find us on Facebook: - Check our website: #Corsica #CorsicaProtests #YvanColonna