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VVisible a number of hundred meters round, a thick plume of black smoke mixes with the grey sky above Carquefou. It comes from a fireplace of pallets and tires lit in entrance of the doorway to the penitentiary middle established right here, northeast of Nantes, and over which Erwan* and his colleagues have been watching since Wednesday morning.
In addition to feeding the house, these guards are additionally accountable for warning the few households who’ve come for a visiting room that it can’t happen, like all jail actions (workshops, sports activities, walks, and so forth.), all canceled in response to the tragedy, the assault on Tuesday on the jail van in Eure, which fully shook up the neighborhood. “Most understand and send us a word of sympathy before turning around,” says Erwan.
In complete, like nearly in all places in France, there have been almost 200 individuals, at noon, who gathered in entrance of the Nantes enclosure, the place the occupancy price reached 180%, for the tribute paid to 2 of their quantity, who fell below bullets in Normandy. Tribute joined by the complete judicial chain with, a couple of kilometers away, a minute of silence noticed at 11 a.m. within the corridor of the courthouse.
Here as elsewhere, everybody articulated the identical phrases, the identical desolation to specific the “shock”, the “considerable emotion”, but additionally the “anger” within the face of this tragedy. “We said to ourselves that one day something would happen because several reports had already been made about the lack of human and material resources,” protests Yann Hervé, Grand Ouest Ufap-Unsa Justice deputy regional secretary. Except that the ministries solely intervene after the tragedies. Now, we count on robust actions when it comes to personnel and gear tailored to those missions. We can now not exit with easy bulletproof vests, which don’t cease calibers like these used. »
At PREJ, brokers journey 5,000 to six,000 kilometers monthly
Jérôme* is aware of one thing about it. Assigned to the PREJ (judicial extraction hub) in Nantes, he’s accountable for transporting detainees from the detention middle or remand middle to the court docket or to a reconstitution scene, and what occurred final Monday “may [leur] arrive anywhere and anytime. And for good reason, he travels “between 5,000 and 6,000 kilometers per month”, and these missions can sometimes take him very far, for journeys of several hours to the other side of the country, with two or three colleagues. on board according to the profile of the individual to be transported.
In this case, the slightest stop en route to change drivers or simply to relieve a natural need constitutes an obvious risk. “When I started as a guard on a corridor, I felt much safer alone facing 120 inmates than now when I am doing an extraction outside with just one inmate. Inside, if there is any problem, we have a transceiver with an alarm button and we are protected. Within the walls, before an armed commando can enter the prison, there is still a lot of work, whereas, outside, we cannot predict anything, we must only count on ourselves. No matter how much you call the police, before they intervene, a lot can happen. »
As during this eventful exit from a court where, one day, Jérôme found himself facing the relatives and family members of a convict taken to prison: “Facing around thirty people when there are only three agents , it's very complicated. » Especially since discretion is far from being essential. Duly screen-printed, the prison administration vehicles are not only visible from a distance but also not all equipped with an armored passenger compartment.
As for the paraphernalia of civil servants, it appears fully out of date within the face of recent threats. “We have 9mm pistols towards Kalashnikovs and our bulletproof vests should not designed for the sort of weapon. We haven’t any means of preventing again. I’m a father and, after I go to work within the morning, I simply need to have the ability to go house within the night to see my household,” sighs Jérôme, who personally knew the 2 brokers shot useless on Tuesday. “In the PREJ, we have to work together from one department to another, so yes, I have already done extractions with them. »
Two deaths that some, from their cells, did not hesitate to “greet” in their very own means, as Yann Hervé studies: “When colleagues debauched on Monday evening, inmates, through the window, shouted: “Well done for the supervisors, maybe it will happen to you one day!” It's free, and maybe it would stay with out follow-up when it comes to motion, however, after this occasion, we don’t go away reassured. »
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