Alongside the LDH were Laurent Santini, Jean-Pierre’s son, the Associu Patrioti and the writers’ collective, Operata pè Santini. «For us there is a vital emergency, we fear hospitalization in the coming hours »Indicated in the preamble Laurent Santini. “My father lost 10 kg and suffered 2 illnesses and his medical supervision was minimal. He told us that he had experienced very difficult times in police custody, humiliations and happened to be the oldest inmate from Fresnes, in a dilapidated cell. He stresses that this is not a standoff with justice but denounces a police force of thought. Today we are very worried for his physical and mental health even if he remains combative in the face of this situation. ».
Ugo Pandolfi then had to speak on behalf of the writers’ collective, Operata pè Santini: “This October 28, at the end of the fourth week of the hunger strike initiated by the writer Jean Pierre Santini since the day of his arrest on October 6, what we have to say to you, loud, clear and clear, is brief, very brief and very straightforward, as are distress messages. For Jean Pierre Santini it is urgent. And this emergency is vital. The poet, the novelist, the activist Jean-Pierre Santini must not die in prison. We do not want a France which destroys its writers. This is what we said publicly and officially wrote two weeks ago to the Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot, whose services have still not acknowledged receipt of the Address made public on October 14. Since then, a choice of justice intervened and pronounced the maintenance in provisional detention in Fresnes of the writer. This choice is incomprehensible, scandalous, shameful. It is unnecessary, unfair and dangerous as the two presidents of Corsica have said. Today, October 28, the vital emergency has worsened. It is now an absolute emergency. And this absolute urgency for a man’s life forbids silence, forbids to ignore, forbids to be silent. It is because urgency prohibits silence that we cry out today. We cry out loud and clear: That justice must pass for everyone, but it must not take the form of unnecessary, unfair and eminently dangerous treatment. We ask that Jean Pierre Santini be placed under judicial control until his trial. We ask that the measure and proportionality henceforth frame the course of legal action. We cry that a person, guilty or not of a crime, should not, should never be denied in his humanity, nor in his distress. This is our cry. This is the meaning of our pè Santini operata. So that a poet, a writer, an editor, an activist does not die in prison, today, in France ».
During his speech, Jean-Philippe Antolini, of the Associu Patrioti, called for the immediate release of those imprisoned in the case: “Corsican patriots have nothing to do in prison. Their immediate release is demanded. In the code of procedure, incarceration must be exceptional, but for Corsicans this is the rule. The state is required to come out of repression and listen to the voice of Corsica, which wants to be soothing. We want dialogue with him »
Last to speak, André Paccou, head of the Corsican section of the LDH, also recalled the vital urgency: “We are now back to the problems that mobilized us a few years ago: anti-terrorism justice. Today is his big comeback. Many young people are in pre-trial detention. We are re-fueling the anti-terrorism machine, but the political context has changed. Today there is a disproportion of this anti-terrorism justice. People in prison are presumed innocent and we must be able to find an alternative to prison. On Jean-Pierre’s situation, there is anger, mixed with emotion, with suffering. Today the league is doing its job as a man by being alongside Jean-Pierre’s family. We will discuss actions to be taken ».
Laurent Santini confided in the microphone of CNI
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