In memory of the pro-independence activist convicted of the assassination of Prefect Erignac, Yvan Colonna, who died on Monday, the European, French and Corsican flags are flown at half-mast on the façade of the Corsican government building. Colonna was attacked on March 2 by a fellow inmate at a prison in southern France where he was being held over the 1998 assassination of a senior French government official. IMAGES