jail officers prolong their mobilization | EUROtoday

Published on : 05/17/2024 – 2:05 p.m.

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They usually are not happy. Prison officers, dissatisfied with the federal government's first responses to their calls for, prolonged, Friday, May 17, for a 3rd day their motion to dam prisons began after the deadly assault on a prisoner switch van on Tuesday within the 'Eure.

“We do not have a clear answer and clear commitments from our minister regarding the basic demands that are being made on vehicles, means and systems for raising escort levels,” he mentioned. AFP Michel Przygoda, jail escort officer at Bordeaux-Gradignan jail, blocked by round fifty individuals.

“We are being made fun of”

The mobilization was nonetheless to stop there within the afternoon, because the opening subsequent week of a brand new constructing the place a few of the detainees are to be transferred is approaching, the primary stage of a future complicated of 600 locations on the horizon 2027.

“A counter-proposal has been sent to the Chancellery. In the meantime, we are continuing the 'Dead Prisons' operation,” Jean-Charles Allen, Ufap consultant at Baumettes jail in Marseille, instructed AFP. “The duration of the movement remains undetermined, it will depend on the minister’s response.”

“We are being made fun of. The minister did not appreciate the seriousness of the situation, otherwise he would have made slightly more concrete proposals, he could have talked about the budget too,” regrets Alain Chevallier, Ufap basic secretary. -Unsa Justice of the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier penitentiary heart (Isère), the place “everything is blocked” by round 110 individuals in response to him.

In Roanne (Loire), “only meals and care are provided”, in response to Jean-Louis Picornell, Ufap-Unsa consultant of the institution.

In Nantes, six autos and 13 brokers from the Pôle de Rattache des Extractions Judiciales (PREJ) carried out, on Friday morning, a snail operation to the Carquefou remand heart, in response to a member of the FO Justice unionized procession.

In the South-West, round 100 brokers blocked the Mont-de-Marsan penitentiary heart on Friday morning, and mobilizations had been nonetheless underway in Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Mauzac and Angoulême, in response to the CGT Pénitentiaire .

“Too many conditionals” within the commitments of the Ministry of Justice

In the Paris area, 90 individuals demonstrated once more, Friday morning, in entrance of the Meaux-Chauconin jail (Seine-et-Marne), round forty in entrance of that of Réau, within the south of the identical division, and round thirty in Osny (Val -d'Oise), in response to the police.

On Thursday the inter-union referred to as for the continuation of the jail blocking motion, judging that the written commitments of the Ministry of Justice contained “too many conditionals”, in response to Wilfried Fonck, of the Ufap-Unsa-Justice union, who was ready for “a brand new assembly with the minister.

Shocked by the homicide of two of their colleagues, shot useless Tuesday morning in an ambush on the Incarville toll sales space (Eure) which allowed the escape of a repeat offender, the jail officers started a motion the following day to dam the institutions to “maintain pressure” on the federal government.

With AFP