French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday called for calm after the death of jailed Corsican separatist militant Yvan Colonna, whose assault by a fellow inmate triggered violent protests on the French Mediterranean island earlier this month.
Colonna, who was serving a life sentence for the killing of a senior official in Corsica in 1998, had been in a coma since he was strangled on March 2 by a fellow inmate whom French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin subsequently described as a "radicalised, Islamist terrorist".
