This is a first, after many requests that have remained in vain. Fifteen days after the decision of a judge to apply the sentences of the Bethune judicial court, who declared “Contrary to the dignity of the human person” The conditions of detention of Rédoine Faïd, but whose prosecution had appealed, justice has just confirmed the indignity of the conditions of detention of the Multiécidivist robber, placed in isolation for 12 years and currently imprisoned in the ultra-secure prison of Vendin-le-Vieil.
“I am necessarily happy, because that’s what we have denounced for years, but at the same time catastrophe,” reacted to Libération His lawyer Benoît David. Because what this decision means is that Mr. Faïd’s conditions of detention are very contrary to human dignity. He undergoes inhuman and degrading treatment, with everything that means psychic pain, beyond the only deprivation to come and go. The prison sentence is no longer only deprivation of freedom, but becomes torture. ”
In this major decision consulted by Libérationthe judges of the Douai Court of Appeal note that “The majority of improvement tracks” have not been implemented by the penitentiary establishment of Vendin-le-Vieil, since December 2024 and a first ordinance of the Court, which rejected the lifting of the isolation of Rédomine Faïd, believing that “Correctives” could be brought.
But several health professionals “Attest to a significant deterioration of the psychosomatic state” of the 53 -year -old prisoner, “In connection with at least partial with its current conditions of detention”. Thus, note the judges, the developments “Possible and desirable” were not provided “To compensate for the degradation of the health of the detained person caused by prolonged isolation and prolonged deprivation of ordinary visiting rooms”.
The prison administration is now one month from this Monday, July 21, “To end these conditions of detention, by any means”, Is it written in the prescription of the chamber of application of the sentences of the Douai Court of Appeal. An information report “On the measures taken or proposed to the detained person” will have to be addressed to the judge of the application of the sentences of Bethune “No later than August 21, 2025”, specifies the decision. This can be the subject of an appeal in cassation within five days, but this appeal is not suspensive.
“It is up to the prison administration to decide on the arrangements it will set up, explains Me David, specialist in penitentiary law. This can be the lifting of hygiaphone, lifting of isolation or even a transfer of my client to an establishment where he will execute his sentence in so -called normal detention. There are lots of possibilities to ensure that the detention of Rédoine Faïd is no longer unworthy. ”
While the first transfers of the 100 drug traffickers to Vendin-le-Vieil will begin these days, the penalist also sees in this decision a hope: “The new regime implemented by the Narcotrafic law is quite close to that of Mr. Faïd. In the future, those who will be transferred to the district of organized crime will be able to seize the judicial judge to have the unworthiness of their conditions of detention “hopes Benoît David, council of Mohamed Amra and other drug traffickers.
Since his second run in 2018, the “king of the beautiful”, who had already escaped the first time in 2013, has been subject to a very drastic isolation regime. Its 7-8 m² cell is deprived of natural light Since the installation, at the end of May, of a second grid at the window. A safety measure which “Acts the lack of brightness that [Rédoine Faïd] longtime suffers ”raises the order. During the visiting rooms with his relatives, the prisoner is separated from them by a window. Nor does it have access to family life units. During “From recent years”his behavior is however “Free from criticism” and qualified “Copy”the judges still underline. Its end date of sentence is set for August 17, 2057.
Updated at 6:18 p.m. with the evocation of detainees to the High Security Prison in Vendin-le-Vieil.