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Yvan Colonna: Corsican nationalist dies after jihadist jail attack

A jailed Corsican nationalist, whose prison assault sparked protests on the French Mediterranean island, has died.

Yvan Colonna, 61, who was serving a life term for murdering Corsica’s top official, was beaten by another inmate, a Cameroonian jihadist, on 2 March.

The attack left Colonna in a coma and he had been receiving treatment in a hospital in the south of France.

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