A penal colony 2.0? This is how Gérald Darmanin’s bulletins had been perceived by Guyanese political employees, touring from Saturday May 19 to Monday, May 19 within the Amazon division of 300,000 inhabitants. The Minister of Justice revealed, on Saturday, to Sunday newspaperhis need to create a excessive safety district sooner or later jail of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (west) in an effort to “Put out of harm to harm the most dangerous profiles of drug trafficking”.
Of the 495 locations offered for on this jail, 60 will probably be reserved for pumps in narcotrafic, mentioned the minister, and “Fifteen places” will probably be “Dedicated to Islamists/radicalized” Condemned for jihadist terrorism, a profile of prisoner nonexistent in Guyana.
It was essential to set off a starting of controversy, whereas the long run jail of Saint-Laurent ought to make it potential to decrease the jail overcrowding-currently to 134.7 %-of the penitentiary heart of Rémire-Montjoly (heart), the one jail in Guyana, the place 1,080 detainees for 616 theoretical locations are locked up. “What we need is a new minor district, not a Qhs [quartier de haute sécurité] For Islamists “castigated on Monday, on the sidelines of the go to of the Penitentiary Center of Rémire-Montjoly by the minister, Manuella on Sunday, an unionized jail supervisor on the UTG-CGT.
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