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GErald Darmanin needs “a firm criminal policy”. In a round, accessed Saturday night by AFP, and relayed by The worldthe Minister of Justice known as on prisoners and jail administrators to “identify” international detainees “eligible” to an expulsion from French territory.

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To justify this request, the Keeper of the Seals studies a jail overcrowding with “82,000 prisoners for 62,000 places” which requires “activating the essentials of the levers”. The individuals involved are the detainees of “definitively condemned foreign nationality” and “intended to be far from the national territory within the framework of a measure of administrative or judicial distance”.

Saturday, Gérald Darmanin stated to the JDD that “more than 19,000 foreign detainees” – defendants and convicted – are imprisoned in France, which represents 24.5 % of the jail inhabitants. “If these foreigners, or even a part of them, served their sentence in their country, we would no longer have a problem of overcrowding,” he stated.

Transfer of prisoners sentenced to their nation of origin

Thus, the prosecutors had been inspired to “systematically require” to the expulsion “when the situation allows”, that’s to say when the condemned prisoner is the topic of a prohibition of French territory or an obligation to go away French territory (OQTF).


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“Conditional releases expelled that the incarcerated foreigner has served half of his sentence in France, that his identity is established and that it is the subject of a prohibition of territory”, specifies to the JDD The Minister. A process that he needs to “streamline” with “partner countries”.

Gérald Darmanin additionally was favorable to encourage the appliance of a European framework determination which permits the switch of these sentenced to the European nation with which they’re nationals to serve their sentence.


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