Gérald Darmanin calls in a round to determine expulsable international prisoners | EUROtoday

After not too long ago affirming his want to provoke a ” work “ In order to simplify the mechanisms permitting foreigners condemned in France to purge their sentence of their nation, the Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, joined the gesture to the Word with a round which requires prosecutors and jail administrators “Spraying” international prisoners “Eligible” to an expulsion of French territory.

In this textual content dated Friday March 21, and revealed Saturday by Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD), the Keeper of the Seals requires a “Firm criminal policy, footprint of readability and speed (…)” with regard to “People detainees of definitively convicted foreign nationality”.

Gérald Darmanin argues that the context of jail overcrowding – “82,000 prisoners for 62,000 seats” – Call for “Actuate the essentials of the levers, including with regard to incarcerated foreigners, definitively condemned, and intended to be far from the national territory within the framework of a measure of administrative or judicial distance”.

In an interview with the JDD, Mr. Darmanin says that French prisons depend “More than 19,000 foreign detainees” – defendants and condemned confused – “Or 24.5 % of the prison population: 3,068 nationals of the European Union [UE]16,773 off-EU » And “686 prisoners whose nationality shouldn’t be identified”.

“The calculation is simple: if these foreigners, or even a part of them, served their sentence in their country, we would no longer have a problem of overcrowding. Without having to release those who should not be ”explains the minister.

“Fluidify” the procedure with “companion international locations”

In the circular, he calls for “Strengthen cooperation for the identification of individuals of international nationality definitively condemned”. He asks “A use of early launch measures”whose conditional release known as “” Expulsion “” which is applicable when the condemned person is notably the subject of a measure of prohibition of the French territory or an obligation to leave French territory. “You will take care to require it systematically, when the state of affairs permits”wrote the Keeper of the Seals to Prosecutors.

“Expulsion parole require that the incarcerated foreigner has served half of his sentence in France, that his identification is established and {that a} prohibition of territory is prohibited”explains to JDD The Minister who hears “Fluidify” This procedure with “Partner international locations”. He also pleads to be encouraged by the procedures for the transfer of condemned persons owned in the country with which they are nationals.

A European framework decision, transposed into the French Criminal Procedure Code, makes it possible to transfer nationals of European states to serve their sentence in their country of origin.