Ajaccio, France (French Republic)
FRENCH POLICE TRANSPORT SUSPECT PAOLI WHO ALLEGEDLY HID YAVN COLONNA IN
CORSICA.
French police transport alleged Corsican suspect Frederic Paoli (C with
head covered), July 5, 2003, after he hid suspect Yvan Colonna.
Colonna, who was arrested on Friday at a sheep barn in the south of
Corsica, is a top suspect in the murder five years ago of Prefect
Claude Erignac, France's highest official on the French Mediterranean
island of Corsica. The arrest was made two days before a referendum in
Corsica on greater autonomy and during the trial in Paris of eight
Corsican nationalists accused of complicity in the murder of Prefect
Erignac. EDITORS NOTE - FRENCH LAW REQUIRES THAT THE FACES OF POLICE
AND GENDARMES MUST BE MASKED IN PUBLICATIONS WITHIN FRANCE -
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