Gérald Darmanin desires to overview the principles for making use of sentences for drug traffickers | EUROtoday

Gérald Darmanin affirmed, Sunday, November 23, that he needed an overhaul of the principles for making use of sentences in issues of organized crime, whereas an inmate from the jail for drug traffickers in Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais) obtained go away.

“The episode concerning the inmate at the Vendin-le-Vieil high-security prison highlights a broader issue: our legislative framework for applying sentences must be fully reviewed in the face of the realities of serious, organized crime”wrote the Minister of Justice in a message posted on X. “These particularly structured and dangerous profiles require different legal tools and particular vigilance”continued Gérald Darmanin.

The “work” go away issued by a sentence enforcement choose to an inmate within the new anti-organized crime unit (QLCO) at Vendin-le-Vieil jail aroused incomprehension, even indignation, from jail unions.

A textual content which will probably be introduced “at the beginning of next year”

“The decision to grant temporary absence rests with the judicial authority, which rules independently”underlined the ssur X guard, whereas recalling that the “public prosecutor” and the “head of prison” had been against it.

The prosecution appealed the choose’s resolution, however the sentencing chamber confirmed it, a judicial supply reported to Agence France-Presse on Saturday.

The Minister of Justice had defended in Parliament the legislation on drug trafficking, which incorporates repressive measures, instruments for investigators, and the creation of excessive safety areas in prisons to position probably the most harmful drug traffickers in solitary confinement. This legislation was promulgated in June.

On Sunday, he stated he wished “modernize and consolidate the rules governing the execution of sentences for the most dangerous criminals”. He promised, as in issues of terrorism, “a specific law and a specialized application judge who knows perfectly the dangerous profiles”. Gérald Darmanin intends to suggest these adjustments as a part of the following authorized textual content that he’ll current “early next year”.