This is the huge start to school! No, not the war in Ukraine, nor the forest fires, the water that is missing everywhere, or the poor who sleep on the street, no, the real “scandal” of the past few days is this game organized in Fresnes prison , one of the most dilapidated in France, overcrowded at 144 %. A game called “Kohlantess”, in reference to the “Koh Lanta” television program. Three teams – supervisors, detainees, young neighbors free from the city – compete around a general culture quiz, in a race by wearing water basins, then, on one side and the other A tub, pompously named “swimming pool”, they shoot on a rope until the opponent falls into the water. Finally and this is the whole subject of the “debate”, two of the 1,918 prisoners of Fresnes (Val-de-Marne) participate in the redeveloped court of the establishment in a kart race.
The “supervisor’s team” won, warmly congratulated by the “detained team”. And the director of the prison distributed – that was the goal of the day – checks from donations and sponsors with three charitable associations working for children. This is the drama that sparked an avalanche of indignant, furious statements, denouncing prisons “Club Med”, “holiday colonies”, comparing “the children who do not go to the sea” with “criminals” who Amusen while waving, “on the back of our taxes”. Such hypocrisy is rare! First of all because this day did not cost taxpayers anything, all costs having been paid by the production company. Then, these indictments come from elected officials and political leaders who, knowing the shameful state of our prisons and their overcrowding never reached in our history, dare, for political reasons, make our fellow citizens believe that prison life can be summed up to this day. The real scandal is not karting, but the lamentable state of our prisons.
Would they have forgotten the formidable parliamentary report” prisons, a humiliation for the Republic “, which, in 2000, had rocked France, demonstrating the awful life of the cells of the cells. A large people of 72,000 inhabitants now piled up in 60,700 places. Part of them, that of remanding houses (where there are condemned to short sentences and defendants, therefore presumed innocent), locked up in cells twenty-two hours out of twenty-four, two, three, three, Sometimes even six or eight, see cavaling bedbugs that bite them, cockroaches that gallop on their body.
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