Question 10803 — places of deprivation of liberty

Summary

Ms. Emmanuelle Ménard draws the attention of Ms. Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to the release from prison by 2019 of 450 radicalized detainees, including around fifty Islamist terrorists, from the ranks of Al-Qaeda or the Islamic State. After having served an average of six years in prison (according to the report from the Center for the Analysis of Terrorism), they will be released soon. The public prosecutor, François Molins, evokes a “risk major”: prison is a “very worrying incubator for the terrorist threat” from which people “risk emerging even more hardened”. Currently, in France, 512 people are serving prison sentences handed down as part of terrorist proceedings. And 1,200 prisoners were convicted of common law offenses and reported for their potential or proven radicalization. Which made Senator Nathalie Goulet say, president of the commission of inquiry into the organization and means of combating jihadist networks in France, that “we are often more radicalized when we leave than when we enter”. She also denounces the lack of resources granted to prisons which cannot effectively monitor people who are radicalized or in the process of being radicalized. However, one of the missions of some 300 agents of the Central Prison Intelligence Bureau (BCRP) is to prevent cases of terrorism. Despite this stated objective and new powers granted by two decrees of February 1, 2017, it seems that these means do not make it possible to fully respond to the challenges of preventing radicalization. Indeed, although the BCRP has proven its undeniable usefulness since its creation, it still lacks the human resources to carry out its mission. As for the programs of deradicalization, they are most of the time criticized for their ineffectiveness like the “Research and intervention on extremist violence” (RIVE) program which was followed by only 21 people. The 2017 senatorial report on the “deindoctrination, de-segregation and reintegration of jihadists in France” even speaks of a “subsidy chasm” or a “deradicalization business”. Mrs. Minister of Justice says she “anticipates their release and follows them extremely precisely”. To this end, she recommends the creation of a monitoring committee which will be hosted by the Counter-Terrorism Coordination Unit. Faced with a terrorist threat which is not weakening and to ensure the safety of the French, she therefore asks him whether all of these measures really seem appropriate to him and whether they would not be suitable. to toughen prison sentences, as well as adapt incarceration conditions to fight against the radicalization of prisoners and to put in place real monitoring of people at high risk who are nevertheless released.

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