Yvan Colonna Aggression: Prison Administration is defending

Laurent Ridel, the director of the prison administration, was auditioned, Wednesday at the National Assembly, on the attempted assassination of the Corsis detainee.

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More than two and a half hours of hearing from the Director of the Prison Administration about Yvan Colonna’s assassination attempt on March 2 at Arles Prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), will have allowed to enlighten some elements of this case whose consequences in Corsia are measured every day. Laurent Ridel responded to some of the questions, particularly that the scene was entirely filmed by the surveillance cameras without provoking personnel intervention.

In front of the laws Committee of the National Assembly, Wednesday, March 16, Mr. Ridel did not deliver decisive evidence on the circumstances of this crime, while two investigations are ongoing – judicial, at the national prosecutor’s office. anti-terrorism, and administrative, by the general inspection of justice. Only new information, the door of the weight room where Yvan Colonna were and his aggressor, Franck Elong Abé, an inmate condemned for Islamist terrorism, had remained open. However, neither penitentiary supervisors nor detainees would have heard anything.

Two surveillance cameras equip the drama room, while building A, where the two protagonists were incarcerated, in account 54, and the entire prison some 300. “I can not guarantee you There is a permanent surveillance of all detainees, “said Ridel. The only live monitoring of cameras concerns the external security of the central house and its access. The cameras then serve to check the movements in detention or to monitor certain sensitive activities. Or to understand a posteriori of incidents.

“No incident reported”

“The presence of these two detainees together this morning, had nothing exceptional,” said the director of the penitentiary administration, before specifying that, despite “quasi-daily lifts” of observations of the Supervisors on these two particularly reported detainees (DPS), “there is no trace of altercation between them”.

MPs mobilized for this hearing asked if there was not a state responsibility in the fact that a dangerous inmate who did the jihad may be in ordinary detention. Laurent Ridel therefore detailed the eight years of incarceration of Franck Elong ABÉ since his shed to the French authorities, in 2014, by the United States who had arrested him in Afghanistan. “He had an extremely chaotic course, in terms of violence and especially self-draining acts with a significant number of suicide attempts and cell fires,” he explains.

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