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Justice requires this Monday, July 21, the relaxation of the conditions of detention of Rédoine Faïd.
Justice-The penitentary administration has one month to soften its living environment in the Vendin-le-Vieil prison. The Douai Court of Appeal confirms, in a decision made this Monday, July 21, that the conditions of detention of the Multi -Rrecidivist robber Rédoine Faïd, for isolation for 12 years after several escapes, are “Contrary to dignity” human.
“Current conditions of detention” de Rédoine Faïd are “Contrary to the dignity of the human person by their combination, their duration and the absence of concrete and objective perspectives achievable to the prisoner”writes the chamber of application of the sentences of the Douai Court of Appeal. This decision confirms that of the judge to apply the penalties of Bethune.
The Court, which lets the prison administration decide possible softening, asked it to present by August 21 “An information report on the measures taken or proposed” to the 50 -year -old detained.
A “Deterioration of his state of physical and mental health”
The robber, incarcerated in the ultra-secure prison of Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) who is due this week of the largest drug traffickers this week, made multiple appeals against his conditions of detention.
He argued that they train “Damage of his state of physical and mental health caused by sensory and social isolation”citing the lack of daylight, the lack of appropriate exercises, human contacts and sensory awakening.
In addition to the isolation scheme, since 2018 he can only receive visits behind a hygiaphone, a device with a window preventing physical contact between an inmate and his visitors.
Since May, a new grid affixed to its window has “Significantly aggravated (…) the natural light deficit”note the court of appeal.
A first decision to this effect had been broken on appeal at the end of 2024, the court believing that “Corrects could still be made usefully”.
But this time, the court emphasizes that “Most of the tracks of improvement” so envisaged have “not been put in place”, and that the detainee’s state of health continues to deteriorate “in connection at least partial with its current conditions of detention”. The enforceable decision can be the subject of an appeal in cassation.
Rédoine Faïd, 53, was sentenced in October 2023 to 14 years’ imprisonment by the Paris Assize Court, for his spectacular escape by helicopter of the Prison de Réau (Seine-etmarne) in July 2018. He was already serving sorrows for robberies, one of which has cost the life of a municipal policewoman, and a previous escape in 2013. set for August 17, 2057.