Four penitentiary agents were taken to the hospital, likely to have inhaled fumes caused Thursday by the fire in a cell of the remand center.
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A detainee died Thursday, December 22, in the fire of a MEAUX-Chauconin prison cell (Seine-et-Marne), firefighters and the prison administration reported, confirming a Information of Parisian .
that occurred at the end of the morning, this fire, whose origin was not immediately known, was extinguished by the supervisors before the arrival of the firefighters.
“Despite the intervention of agents, alerted by the smoke, who were able to penetrate equipped with protection in the cell and controlled fire, the detained person died on his bed,” said the prison administration in a Communiqué sent to the France-Presse agency. The other detainees on the floor have been evacuated and supported by the SAMU, “without a medical extraction to be necessary,” she added.
likely to have inhaled fumes, four agents were taken to hospital as a precaution. A psychological cell has been opened.
With 724 detainees for 385 places, the Meaux-Chauconin penitentiary center has an occupancy rate of 188 %, according to statistics from the Ministry of Justice arrested at 1