the exit authorization of a drug trafficker from Vendin-le-Vieil is controversial | EUROtoday

un judicial inexperienced gentle which doesn’t move. Against all expectations and regardless of the alert from the jail administration, a 52-year-old drug trafficker, ranked among the many 100 most harmful prisoners within the nation, will profit from a so-called “employer’s” depart on Monday. Validated on Friday November 21 by the sentence enforcement chamber of the Douai Court of Appeal, this authorization ought to enable him to fulfill a possible recruiter within the Lyon area. An method introduced as strictly linked to his reintegration, however which, for a lot of professionals, is inconceivable.

Because this resolution comes in opposition to the opinions of the top of the Vendin-le-Vieil institution and the Béthune public prosecutor’s workplace, specifies BFTMV. The latter even filed an attraction, which was sharply dismissed by the magistrates of Douai. As required by the system, the permission, banal in principle however unprecedented for such a profile, shall be carried out with out escort. The inmate’s spouse will present the spherical journey throughout the day to Pas-de-Calais.

Spectacular escape

Originally from the City of 4,000 in La Courneuve, the person is taken into account one of many historic godfathers of drug trafficking in Seine-Saint-Denis. His legal file consists of a number of heavy convictions, together with eight years in jail in 2012 for “drug trafficking” and “criminal association”. He was then fined 50,000 euros and banned from coming into Seine-Saint-Denis.

But it was his spectacular escape on June 4, 2014 that definitively positioned him within the panorama of organized crime. Escorted by 4 unarmed supervisors throughout a medical examination on the Saint-Denis hospital, he’s snatched by an armed commando as he will get again into his van. Fifteen days on the run will observe, earlier than his arrest in Blanc-Mesnil.

At his trial, he misplaced his mood: “I can’t take it anymore, when am I going to get on with my life?” I’m 42 years outdated, I’ve 25 years in jail. Did I kill somebody? Did I steal from somebody? It’s wonderful, nothing however wonderful! » he mentioned, irritated, earlier than the deliberations, as quoted by TF1. Since then, his jail journey has taken him from the South-West to Vendin-le-Vieil, throughout the new District for the combat in opposition to organized crime (QLCO). His launch stays scheduled for 2029.

A “disconnected” and “absurd” resolution

Without commenting on the choice itself, as required by his ministry, Gérald Darmanin however reacted to the media storm. On X, he believes that this “episode highlights” a authorized system unsuitable for “serious organized crime”. The Minister of Justice needs to go additional: for him, “these particularly structured and dangerous profiles require different legal tools and very particular vigilance”. He pleads for “specific law and a specialized enforcement judge who knows perfectly dangerous profiles”.

The union response was not lengthy in coming. Ufap-Unsa Justice denounces “a decision totally disconnected from the requirements, realities and constraints imposed every day on prison staff”. The union even sees it as a risk to the QLCO regime: “This permission will not be merely incomprehensible: it discredits the QLCO regime and exposes to broad daylight the absurdity of a system which not is aware of what it needs. »