The instance evokes “structural dysfunctions” throughout the territory, which concern the cleanliness of the premises and the sleeping equipment.
Le Monde with AFP
The Council of State ordered the Ministry of the Interior, Monday, November 22, to improve access to hygiene in the custody premises, and underlined “dysfunctions” on the whole of the whole of the Territory in terms of cleanliness, including sleeping equipment. Hygiene Kits (Refreshing Wipes, Crusted Toothpaste, Hygienic Towels), widely available in all police stations, are not “systematically” proposed, notes the Council of State in its decision, ordering that it becomes Automatic.
In view of the health context, persons kept in mind must also “be informed of the possibility” to renew every four hours their CVIV-19 protection mask, and be able to access “on request” to freeze hydroalcohol, also asks the Council of State.
The failures that “persist”
An appeal before the judge of references (emergency procedure) had been filed by associations of lawyers after a report in September of the general controller of the places of deprivation of liberty (CGLLL), Dominique Simonnot, who pointed the “Total indignity”, the “unspeakable dirt” and other “pestilential odors” and “accumulation of dirt” which characterized most of the seventeen inspected custody premises.
At the hearing on October 21, the representative of the Ministry of the Interior had stated that the administration had “taken into account the observations” made by CGLLL, and recalled that there are more than 640 premises of jail. The obligation to treat with dignity the persons kept at sight is “rigorously respected in the vast majority of situations,” she said.
The judge of references did not show up the same opinion: “The difficulties identified”, in terms of the cleanliness of the premises and the sleeping equipment in particular, concern “the whole territory” and warrant that Measures are ordered “to overcome structural dysfunctions that are lost”. These measures that can not materially can not be implemented quickly, they can not be ordered by an emergency judge, however, adds the Council of State.
“The logic of the department who claimed that there was no systemic dysfunctions is totally beaten in breach,” said Patrice Spinosi, lawyer of the Association of Penalist Lawyers. “The administration is ordered to respect the sanitary requirements”, and the State Council “opens at the same time the door to a substantive action and no longer referred to ensure that the salubrity of the premises of custody premises. , which is currently deplorable, “he added.