Shepherd on trial in official’s slaying
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From Times Wire Reports
Shepherd Yvan Colonna went on trial in Paris on charges of murdering France’s top government representative on the island of Corsica in 1998.
Colonna, pale, thin and dressed in black, smiled at and gestured toward his relatives.
He denies the charge, and one man among several convicted in the case has since claimed to have pulled the trigger.
The slaying of Claude Erignac in Corsica’s main city of Ajaccio was the most serious political assassination in France since World War II and sparked one of the biggest investigations in the country’s history.
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