Posting the prisoners in jail, Gérald Darmanin’s baroque proposal | EUROtoday

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The Minister of Justice, Gérald Darmanin, in the National Assembly, in Paris, on April 1, 2025.

Monday night, shortly after 8:20 p.m., Christophe Naegelen’s laptop computer, the deputy Liot des Vosges, instantly began ringing with out interruption. He ignored it, however his identify had simply been quoted by Gérald Darmanin, throughout his intervention within the 20 -hour newspaper of TF1. The Keeper of the Seals had invited himself on tv to take inventory of the investigation which had led to the arrest of 25 individuals (together with 5 detainees), fifteen days after the coordinated assaults towards a dozen penal institutions. But the Minister additionally got here to announce a shock proposal, to say the least surprising: to make prisoners pay for incarceration prices, to be able to enhance the working circumstances of the supervisors. Now Christophe Naegelen had simply March 11 a invoice (quantity 1059) concentrating on “To establish a lump sum and compulsory contribution of condemned and incarcerated detainees”. It remained to discover a political heavyweight to hold the textual content. It is now finished.

“Today, the operation of our prisons costs 10 million euros per day, almost four billion euros per year. Detainees must contribute to the incarceration fees “justified Gérald Darmanin on the TF1 set. And to defuse any criticism, the Keeper of the Seals immediately hastened to specify that it would only be a simple return to a previous situation. “Until 2003, detainees participated in incarceration costs. As there is a hospital package, there was a fixed price in the prison ”he stated, including that he now intends to revive this package deal.

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