Colonna’s followers said he was assassinated by the French state, and in a certain sense that’s true: the French state brought into the country millions of people who believe that criticizing Muhammad is a capital offense.

“Yvan Colonna: Calls for calm after Corsican nationalist dies from prison attack,” Euro News, March 22, 2022 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for calm after a Corsican independence figure died of his injuries following a prison attack.

Yvan Colonna died on Monday evening in a Marseille hospital, three weeks after he was assaulted by another prisoner.

The nationalist figure had been serving a life sentence for the 1998 murder of Claude Érignac, a senior Corsica official.

Colonna — who had always denied the charges — was arrested in 2003 after a five-year manhunt that eventually found him living as a shepherd in the Corsican mountains.

According to investigators, the 61-year-old was strangled by a “jihadist” inmate at the prison gym in Arles on 2 March and was left in a coma.

A 36-year-old — who had been imprisoned for “terrorist criminal association” — had been charged with attempted murder.

When questioned, he accused Colonna of “blaspheming” the prophet Muhammad.