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Place of Birth: Mende, Occitania, France
About Claude Érignac
- Claude Érignac (15 December 1937 – 6 February 1998) was a French prefect on the island of Corsica. Érignac was born in Mende, Lozère.
- In the course of his political career, he had been prefect of several departments and overseas departments since 1967.
- In 1996 he went to Ajaccio in Corsica to take office as the Prefect of Corse-du-Sud.
- He was assassinated at 9:15 p.m.
- on 6 February 1998 in Ajaccio on his way to a classical music concert by two gunmen who shot him three times with a 9 mm Beretta pistol.
- The weapon had been stolen on 6 September 1997, when members of the National Liberation Front of Corsica stormed a gendarmerie barracks at Pietrosella.
- Corsican nationalist militant Yvan Colonna was suspected of the killing, and was arrested in 2003.
- He was found guilty for the third time in June 2011 for the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.Érignac's wife, children and some associates established the Claude-Érignac Association soon after his death.
- The bylaws of the association were published in the Journal officiel on 5 February 2000.
- The French Ministry of the Interior at Place Beauvau in Paris, inaugurated a hall in his name in the ministry.
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