Question 10802 — places of deprivation of liberty

Summary

Mrs. Emmanuelle Ménard draws the attention of Mrs. Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to the escape of Redoine Faïd. On July 1, 2017, a repeat robber escaped from prison for the second time, revealing failings. Indeed, a helicopter was able to land in the main courtyard, the only place sheltered from watchtowers, even though an anti-aircraft net has been requested by the Réau prison since its opening in 2011. The The prisoner was in the visiting room, under the supervision of a single person, when the escape took place. However, Redoine Faïd had been “in solitary confinement for several months” because it was known that he wanted to escape. The escape thus seems to have been facilitated by the passage of drones over the prison a few months ago, which raises the question of the absence of an anti-drone jamming system in French prisons. This escape has was also filmed by a prisoner, then broadcast on the internet, which raises questions about the presence of such communication tools in the possession of French prisoners. Beyond all these questions, there is the question of changing cells and searches which no longer seem to be carried out. The general secretary of the national prison union, Mr. Emmanuel Baudin, said following the escape: “in the past, the detainees reported, they were changed cells regularly. We searched the cells. Today, we hardly search any more.” Added to this is the fact that the prison administration had warned, through an exchange of emails between the interregional management of Île-de-France and the management of the prison administration, that it suspected a probable escape attempt by Redouane Faïd. A transfer of the detainee was even planned for September 2018. This deadline was judged by the interregional management to be “not reasonable given the serious threat of the detainee committing the act”. In the same message, she warned of “the serious and serious risks of disturbances to public order, not to mention the risk of very serious or even irreversible violence against our staff”. The general inspection mission of justice, which was commissioned on July 1, 2017, will report notice within a month. She therefore asks him why the prison administration did not take the alerts about Redoine Faïd seriously and if it intends to allocate additional resources to prisons and their staff, to better protect the French.

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