Justice rejects the request of Bois-d’Arcy prisoners, who denounced a “climate of violence”

Back to square one? However, The Administrative Court of Versailles rejected, on Friday, the request filed by 22 detainees from the Bois-d’Arcy (Yvelines) remand center. For example, They asked for the implementation of emergency measures in the face of the “climate of violence” denounced within the. In addition, penitentiary establishment.

In his order. Moreover, consulted by AFP, the judge in summary proceedings considered that the requests made by the detainees did not respond to an emergency situation. He considers in particular that some of the “injunctions requested […] present a structural character. therefore do not fall under the office of the judge of summary proceedings ”.

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In their request. consulted by justice rejects request bois-d’arcy prisoners, AFP, prisoners pointed out an inadequate or even non -existent response to the violence between fellow prisoners, but also to those attributed to supervisors. “These detainees know what they risk carrying this appeal. ” said their lawyer, Juliette Chapelle, at the hearing, saying that her clients could expose himself to reprisals from prison personnel.

The Association for the Defense of Detainees’ Rights (A3D). the International Prisons Observatory (OIP) were also applicable alongside prisoners. At the hearing. Juliette Chapelle had notably mentioned the death, in May, of an inmate killed by her cell companion, questioning the failures of the alert system. She also recalled the assault in November 2023 of a prisoner by a supervisor. who had led to thirty-one days of total incapacity for work. Criminal procedure is underway, and the supervisor must soon be tried in Versailles.

No “dysfunction” according to the judge

The complainants also accused certain agents of “serious breaches justice rejects request bois-d’arcy prisoners, to ethics”: night awakenings. arbitrary refusal of shower, mail jets, insults and threats. The judge in summary proceedings, pointing “certain punctual incidents”, however, rejected the idea of “dysfunction within the establishment”.

In his prescription. he enjoined the Keeper of the Seals to take certain measures, as “ensuring that the night rounds do not harm the balance and health of the detained persons”, “guarantee the detainees access to showers with an acceptable water distribution temperature” or “guarantee the detainees that the mail they receive or send […] is the subject of treatment within a reasonable time ”.

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“The message sent is that we can be hit in detention. or even dying in his cell with long intervention times without this posing a problem,” deplored Juliette Chapelle, contacted by AFP.